How can people exercise choice in relation to GM products?
The Government supports mandatory labelling requirements which allow consumers to make an informed choice. There are European Union rules to ensure that GM products can be traced and labelled throughout the food chain so customers can choose whether to buy GM products or not. Crops, products or individual food ingredients must be traced and labelled if they intentionally consist of GM organisms, however small the amount, or are derived from a genetically modified organism. In addition if a product has an adventitious or technically unavoidable GM presence above 0.9% in any one ingredient it must be labelled.
