Russian politicians consider ban on GM food production

(http://rt.com/politics/russia-gmo-foods-ban-567/) A group of politicians in Russia have introduced a bill to ban the production of genetically modified crops and severely limit GMO imports.

The bill, backed by Evgeny Fyodorov of the parliamentary majority United Russia and a group called Russian Sovereignty, would amend the existing law On Safety and Quality of Alimentary Products with a standard for the allowable amount of transgenic and genetically modified components. Under the bill, no GMOs could be produced for use in human or animal food; however, research could still be conducted on GMOs as long as they are not grown and sold.

A reported by RT.com, "The bill will be submitted to the lower house in two weeks' time and its authors claim that its chances of passing are very high."