One of Iowa’s top elected leaders took part in Wednesday’s White Housetrade talks with European Union diplomats. Iowa Senator Tom Harkin says hewas invited by President Clinton to sit in on the meeting to discussag-related issues, like the controversy over genetically-modified crops.Harkin says he talked with the president of the European Union about severalimportant trade issues. Harkin says the talks went very well.Harkin says the European public is getting mixed signals on G-M-O’s and theU-S needs to do a better job of educating everyone that the products are NOTharmful.

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