UK should be given power to regulate GM crops, MPs say

Science and technology committee damns EU rules on authorisations for genentically-modified crops as politicised and unscientific

The UK should be handed the regulatory power to green light genetically-modified crops because the EU's GM rules are politicised and unscientific, an influential committee of MPs have said.

A new report from the committee is damning of regulatory delays caused by the EU's consideration of GM under a 'precautionary principle' which obliges caution where scientific evidence is insufficient, inconclusive or uncertain.