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In mid-April, Dutch port authorities flagged several shipments of soybean meal arriving from Argentina. The reason? The meal contained traces of a genetically modified soybean variety called HB4 — a drought-tolerant crop approved in Argentina, Brazil, and the United States, but not in the European Union. Under EU rules, there’s no grey area: if an unauthorised GM trait is detected, the shipment is rejected. No exceptions, no tolerance thresholds. What happened next is a good