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 GMOs > Food Contamination

EU Allows GM Contamination of Food.

• On 3rd July, 2002 the European Parliament voted on labelling food obtained from or containing Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)
•  Directive 2001/18/EC (PDF file : 259Kb), allows 1% contamination before labeling is compulsory.
•  EU Regulations on GM labelling 19th February, 2003
•  Regulation (EC) 1830/2003  22nd September, 2003
  concerning the traceability and labelling of genetically modified organisms
•  Creeping Contamination (PDF file : 22Kb)
  "Friends of the Earth is extremely concerned over the exemptions made for “adventitious” or “technically unavoidable” presence of unauthorised GMOs. These GMOs would not be subject to approval, traceability or labelling. It would mean that 1 in 100 tomatoes, 10 out of 1000 loaves or 500 tonnes of a 50,000 tonne shipment of soya could be GM, yet exempt from the law. Consumers would face a lottery when for example, buying a tomato, as to whether it was GM or not. Consumer choice will not be guaranteed."

One Percent (or 0.9%) of What?

'1%' of what?

• total weight of natural product?
• total weight of consumer product? (what happens if a consumer makes a concentrate from what appears to be a GM free product ?)
• total weight of only the protein material?
• total weight of the protein that has been altered?
• total weight of all genes?