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Only 1percentt of the world's genetically modified food is grown in Europe.

Genetically modified food is a contentious topic in Africa right now.

But it is in Europe that resistance to genetically modified food is stifling innovation.

In Europe, the debate over genetically modified food is as much about passion as it is about science.

There are already national review bodies to ensure that genetically modified food is safe before it comes to market.

That is unlikely until the European ban on genetically modified food is lifted and the issue of labeling is confronted head on.

But intent on his mission, Mr. Kress shrugged off signs that national campaigns against genetically modified food were gaining traction.

Adrian Bebb, a campaigner at Friends of the Earth in Britain, said he believed that this was the first instance of unauthorized genetically modified food being found in Europe.

European officials have said that the Bush administration can argue over the openness of the European market but that they reject as underhanded the implication that their stricter rules on genetically modified food are somehow responsible for hunger in Africa.

Environmental groups that campaign against genetically modified food are taking a "morally unacceptable" position that puts "ideology" ahead of the needs of the poor, a former director of Greenpeace has warned.

Many factors are at work -- a mysterious science that occurs at the submicroscopic level, jingoism about food, scare campaigns by environmentalists, arrogant American responses and one bit of bad timing, the fact that freighters loaded with the 1996 American soybean crop sailed just as British mad cow disease, totally unrelated to genetically modified food, was terrifying Europe.