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May 18, 2000 / from a press release MARKHAM, ON -- Consumers who truly want to know what is in the foods they are buying will need to shop at their local health food store.

Company Press Release / SOURCE: National Corn Growers Association

May 18, 2000 / Reuters/Globe and Mail/National Post/ New York Times / Irene Marushko WINNIPEG -- Canadian canola growers and government officials were cited as dismissing European complaints on Thursday about Canadian rapeseed containing modified organisms (GMOs) that farmers planted inadvertently in Britain, Sweden, France and Germany.

Reuters | By Paul Eckert BEIJING - Clinking champagne glasses and smiling broadly, top trade officials of China and the European Union toasted a market opening deal Friday that removes the last major hurdle to China's membership of the WTO.

May 19, 2000 / PA News In Europe, pressured increased for so-called search and destroy missions. The Swedish Board of Agriculture was cited as saying it was likely farmers there who used the affected seed this year would be ordered to destroy their crops.

May 18, 2000 / Reuters / Reese Ewing SAO PAULO -- Brazilian agriculture officials were cited as denying on Thursday the New York Times newspaper's statement that 30 percent of Brazil's entire billion-dollar soybean crop could already be genetically modified.

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West Highland Free Press / Friday 19th May Norway is proposing to tighten its stranglehold on the farmed salmon market through the possibility of patenting the genes of the Atlantic salmon.