MAKUHARI, Chiba Pref. -- Participants at a meeting to establish international standards for genetically modified foods decided Wednesday to move their discussions to working groups.
About 250 representatives from governments, international organizations and nongovernmental organizations in 37 countries took part in the meeting of the Codex Ad Hoc Intergovernmental Task Force on Foods Derived from Biotechnology.
The task force is is under the umbrella of the 165-member Codex Alimentarius Commission.