Six Truckloads of GMO Corn Returned to Croatia from Hungary

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Between November 22 and 24, a shipment of six truckloads of corn returned to Croatia, originally exported to Hungary, to a known buyer, by Agragold Company from Zagreb. The Hungarians returned the corn accompanied with a report by a Budapest laboratory which states that the shipment contained genetically modified corn, report Osijek Greens.

Shipment of GMO corn exported to Hungary returned to Croatia

According to information available from a number of activists, the corn has been stored in the depots of �PIK Vinkovci/Agrocor� company, allegedly under the supervision of the sanitary inspection, until the veracity of the laboratory report is confirmed.

Osijek Greens activists demand from Customs Offices in Vinkovci and Osijek, and from the Bureau for Sanitary Inspections of the Ministry of Health to come in public with a position on this issue. Members of the Ministry staff already confirmed the event. The whole affair was taken over by the Ministry of Health, and samples of the corn were sent to a laboratory in Zagreb.

Having in mind that the Zagreb laboratory is not still accredited for GMO analysis, samples will be also sent for control analysis to a prominent laboratory in Switzerland. Until the whole issue is settled in the appropriate manner, the six trucks will remain at the depot in Vinkovci.

�We received reports from a private person whose identity we will not disclose. Since Agragold denies all accusations of trading with suspected GMO corn, the balancing of competences within the legal provisions may continue indefinitely. We are afraid that this corn could soon �disappear� and reappear in the market-place packed as cattle-feed. So, the approximation of Croatian to European legislation, at least in terms of environmental protection is not visible in the field, and it is doubtful that it will ever be�, says Ljiljanka Mitos-Svoboda, the Leader of Osijek Greens.