The US government and farmers reacted with dismay to a European Union parliamentary vote to require labels on foods containing genetically modified ingredients. The European parliament agreed to two new directives that will require foods and animal feed to be labelled if they contain at least 0.9 percent of GM ingredients. The European Union has said the decision opens the way to lifting a de facto moratorium on biotechnology food imports, which is being challenged by the United States in the World Trade Organization. But the US administration and US farmers said the new labelling rules, which could be adopted into law by individual European Union member states later this year, would make matters worse.

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