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The UK Government has confirmed that it will support Monsanto in a European court case brought by European civil society groups. In a written Parliamentary Answer today, Earl Howe stated that the Government will intervene in the European Court of Justice to support the biotechnology giant, which wishes to import a GMO soy variety called Intacta into the EU for food and feed uses.

Spectrum Premium Non-GMO hybrids, used in the testing, produced 3 to 10 more bushels per acre when compared to nationally known GMO corn hybrids. Trial details: bit.ly/1baSkPt

Large biotech companies like Syngenta, Monsanto, Pioneer, Dow and BASF have long been experimenting with GMO crops and seeds in Hawaii. They have farms on Oahu, Kauai and Molokai, but they've never operated on Hawaii's Big Island -- and now they never will.

The government is reportedly trying to introduce two genetically modified (GM) crop varieties of rice and potato in the country, following the release of four other brinjal varieties which received final approval last month.

Food products won't require more detailed labeling, after the state's failed passage of Washington Initiative 522, which put up for vote last week whether or not farms and food production companies would be required to identify items with ingredients that have been genetically modified.

South Australia will extend a moratorium on genetically modified crops until at least 2019. SA is the only mainland state maintaining a ban on GM crop production and trials.

The first genetically-modified rice to be commercially available could be approved for production in the Philippines in two to three years, researchers said Tuesday, despite strong opposition from environmental groups.

The European Union is on course to approve cultivation of a new type of genetically modified maize for the first time in more than a decade, according to a draft proposal from the bloc's executive seen by Reuters.

Washington is at center stage in the debate over genetically engineered foods this election season. If voters approve Initiative 522, the state will be the first in the nation to implement labeling of foods that contain genetically engineered ingredients.

October delivered two major victories in the fight against genetically-engineered foods: Mexico announced an immediate ban on planting GMO corn, and the big island of Hawaii County Council gave preliminary approval to a bill that prohibits open air cultivation and testing of genetically engineered crops or plants.