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Seems the European Union may fall foul of its own laws on labelling genetically modified products after it sourced the cotton it uses to make Euro bank notes from America rather than Turkey (as Britain does) or any of the domestic (ie European) cotton producers. As an article in The Times reports, three quarters of American cotton crops are transgenic, and nobody ever tracks what is and what isn’t, so the likelihood is that every euro note is in some way contaminated. As there is nothing on the notes to explain this the whole of the currency (coins aside) is technically illegal.

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