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Professor Hilde-Gunn Opsahl Sorteberg at the Norwegian University of Life
Sciences (UMB) believes that GM products will be on Norwegian tables within
ten years as the country follows after the growing international interest
such food, newspaper Nationen reports, March 2007.

Sorteberg also predicts that Norwegian authorities will allow genetically
modified ingredients in processed food within two years.

Sorteberg believes that Norwegian farmers, like their counterparts abroad,
will be the first to be won over to GM food. Genetically modified
alternatives will become increasingly cheaper and oust traditional products
for this reason.

"International research circles know that skepticism runs especially deep in
Norway and that their products will meet resistance. For this reason they
will not be bothered to develop varieties that are suited to the Norwegian
climate, and thus Norwegian farmers will lose out in a global agricultural
market," Sorteberg told Nationen.

Sorteberg argued that the varieties developed for milder climates will
hardly be viable in Norway's hardier conditions.

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