Friday, June 22, 2007

Don't Pay for GMOs

"On 21 June a delegation representing 70 organic businesses, with a combined turnover of about £ 950,000,000, urged the Secretary of State for the Environment not to make organic consumers pay for GM contamination. The Government currently proposes to allow up to 0.9% GM in organic food without the GM companies being liable for this damage. This is despite the fact that in European law, 0.9% is not a general GM threshold, but rather a threshold below which accidental contamination does not have to be labelled."

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