The Australia New Zealand Food Authority (ANZFA) and biotechnology ethics advocates are at blows over plans to launch new genetically modified foods in supermarkets without warning labels.
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ANZFA has approved genetically modified corn and canola oil, for use in breakfast cereals, bread, pastries and snack foods. The food undergoes distilling in the production, which destroys the DNA and releases the manufacturer and retailer from the obligation to label the end product as genetically modified.
Bob Phelps, director of the GeneEthics Network, warned that the news could prompt a wave of other GM products which would not carry the warning. “People who do not want to – or should not – consume foods which have been genetically modified are simply not going to be any the wiser with this loophole in the law,” Phelps said. “Government has created laws to ensure food buyers are misinformed.”
Last week just-food.com published a report on ANZFA inviting comment on the proposals. You can read it by clicking here.
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