Posted on
18th November 2001
Kangaroos
Jump Over GMOs
Food manufacturers were reportedly ditching genetically modified
ingredients to avoid pointing to them under new labelling laws.
Today's Sydney Morning Herald reported that big food companies
have caved
in to consumer resistance and sought nonGM sources for ingredients.
All
packaged food with GM ingredients manufactured from December
7 will have to
list the GM components, with exceptions relating to highly refined
oils,
sugars and flavours, the report said. Despite earlier industry
estimates
that 40 to 60 per cent of processed foods contained GM ingredients,
the
largest supermarket chain, Woolworths, now expects only a handful
of its
house brands to have to carry the GM label.
Australia's biggest food conglomerate Goodman Fielder told the
Sydney
Morning Herald it had changed suppliers of a few ingredients
in order to
meet the new rules. Sanitarium also said it had worked hard
to arrange
nonGM sources for ingredients such as soy beans.
Industry sources say recipes for some foods would have to change
to meet
the stringent new GM labelling rules.
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