Vegetarians Unwitting Consumers of GM

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Tuesday, 15 July 2003

Vegetarians are unwittingly eating GM-contaminated food, including certain products which claim they are GM-free. Some of the most popular brands for Britain's 2.2 million vegetarians and vegans, food safety authorities have found, contain GM soya beans and maize - a fact rarely disclosed on the label.

The popular foods containing traces of GM crops include soya mince and soya chunks sold by firms such as Holland and Barrett, Protoveg Sosmix and Burgamix, and Cow & Gate vegetable casserole powder for babies - the last of these is labelled as being GM-free.

Source: Severin Carrell and Sheera Frenkel The Independent 13 July 2003.

For full story: http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/environment/story.jsp?story=424024