EU food safety agency attacked

This is, to be blunt, just rather typical and sad.

The activist organization "Friends of the Earth" has attacked the European Food Safety Agency for being biased towards GMO foods.

Set up in 2002, EFSA's views are used by the European Commission as independent scientific opinion on the safety risk of GMO products for entry into the food chain, for consumption by humans and animals, and release into the environment.

Friends of the Earth is upset because ""The GMO panel of the European Food Safety Authority has not made a good start. In just over a year it has published twelve scientific opinions, virtually all favourable to the biotechnology industry."

It's the old case of the precautionary principal raising it's ugly, scarred head yet again - "FoE said the agency had ignored large differences between a GMO product and its non-GMO equivalent, and accused it of not looking at possible long-term effects of GMO crops and foods."