For the past several months, if you ate store brand long-grain rice from Morrison's or Tesco, there's a good chance that you ate American GM rice which is supposedly controlled by the government, but is actually allowed to be pretty much as the importers please. In fact, the Food Standards Agency just admitted that although there are legal standards on food, that there aren't any actual tests in place to ensure the food conforms. This rice is on the tip of an iceberg full of other unknown GM foodstuffs. Whether or not GM will prove safe, if the laws exist with the concept of public and environmental safety, surely they should be enforced? [GT]
Britons eating GM rice as watchdog fails to test imports
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