EU Plans to Allow 0.9% GM Contamination in Organic Food

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Tuesday, 10 January 2006

Environmental campaigners have hit out at EU plans to allow food contaminated with genetically modified material to be sold as organic. The draft regulation would permit products accidentally contaminated with up to 0.9% GM organisms to bear the EU organic logo.

The Soil Association insists that organic food should contain no more than 0.1% GM material. Peter Melchett, policy director, is quoted: “Our position is no GM in Soil Association-certified organic, which in practice means the lowest level of GM that can be reliably and consistently detected, which is 0.1%.”

Source: The Guardian - for full story go to http://www.guardian.co.uk/eu/story/0,,1680439,00.html - 6 Jan