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Monsanto GM seed ban is overturned by US Supreme Court
Date: 22 Jun 2010
The bio–tech company Monsanto can sell genetically modified seeds before safety tests on them are completed, the US Supreme Court has ruled.
A lower court had barred the sale of the modified alfalfa seeds until an environmental impact study could be carried out. But seven of the nine Supreme Court Justices decided that ruling was unconstitutional.
Environmentalists had argued that there might be a risk of cross–pollination between genetically modified plants and neighbouring crops.
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