GMO news related to New Zealand

16.04.2012 |

GE maize and soya foods from South Africa ’could be illegal’ in New Zealand

GE Free New Zealand has just received the results from GE testing on infant foods and gluten free products undertaken in South Africa. These have confirmed that the South African foods significantly exceeded the percentage levels of GE maize and soy that the importer had informed us of. What is more concerning is that the very high levels may be from illegal unapproved GE events. The test findings support concerns raised, but previously dismissed by Countdown supermarkets, the importer, and the NZ Food and Grocery Council, that nobody seems to know or have a system in place to identify what GM variants are being sold in New Zealand or whether they are legal.

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