An experimental field of GMO plants, authorized in 1998 in Italy, is going to be destroyed during the next few days (starting from 12 June 2012) after an anti-GMO organisation wrote a letter of protest to both the Italian departments of agriculture and environment, asserting that no further authorisation had been obtained by the researchers in 2009, after they asked for it.
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