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The revised GMO expert panel at the European Food Safety Authority still has a majority of experts in favour of using genetically engineered plants in agriculture. Testbiotech estimates that eleven of the twenty panel members have links to industry or are known as proponents of the controversial technology. [...] Patrick Du Jardin, for instance, is associated with the Public Research and Regulation Initiative, which is lobbying to lower standards of risk assessment and labelling, something that was not mentioned in his Declaration of Interest at EFSA.