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News Update from the Campaign to Label Genetically Engineered

Foods

 

News Update From The Campaign to Label Genetically Engineered Foods

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Dear Health Freedom Fighters,

 

Beginning December 7, Australian and New Zealand food manufacturers

will

need to label all processed food products that contain genetically

engineered ingredients. Products manufactured before December 7 will

not

need labels.

 

As a result of this labeling requirement, Australia's largest food

conglomerate, Goodman Fielder, is eliminating genetically engineered

ingredients from their product line. This is great news! Other

manufacturers and grocery chains are also moving rapidly to eliminate

biotech ingredients.

 

The article posted below from the Sydney Morning Herald titled " Gene

labels scare off food makers " will provide more details.

 

What is taking place in Australia and New Zealand is a classic example

of why mandatory labeling legislation is so effective in stopping

genetically engineered foods.

 

In May 1998, the 15 European Union (EU) countries implemented mandatory

labeling requirements for genetically engineered soy and corn. By the

end of 1998, nearly all the grocery chains and fast food restaurants in

the EU had eliminated genetically engineered ingredients from their

products.

 

When we pass mandatory labeling legislation in the United States, the

same scenario will take place. Manufacturers would rather eliminate

genetically engineered ingredients from their products than be required

to label them.

 

How fast we pass mandatory labeling legislation in the U.S. is directly

dependent upon how many letters members of Congress receive asking them

to support such legislation. So it is essential to our success to flood

Congress with letters from concerned citizens.

 

The Campaign's Take Action Packet is the perfect tool for providing

both educational information and form letters. These 32-page full color

magazines contain form letters to mail to Congress and President Bush.

You can purchase copies of the Take Action Packet at bargain prices on

The Campaign's web site at:

http://www.thecampaign.org/action.htm

 

If you have not yet ordered Take Action Packets, you are encouraged to

do so as soon as possible. The Campaign to Label Genetically Engineered

Foods has gone to great effort and expense to produce the new Take

Action Packet. But we are depending on YOU to spread the word!

 

Order today!!

 

Craig Winters

Executive Director

The Campaign to Label Genetically Engineered Foods

 

The Campaign

PO Box 55699

Seattle, WA 98155

Tel: 425-771-4049

Fax: 603-825-5841

E-mail: label

Web Site: http://www.thecampaign.org

 

Mission Statement: " To create a national grassroots consumer campaign

for the purpose of lobbying Congress and the President to pass

legislation that will require the labeling of genetically engineered

foods in the United States. "

 

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The Sydney Morning Herald

November 15, 2001

 

Gene labels scare off food makers

 

By Mark Metherell

 

Food manufacturers are discarding genetically modified ingredients from

their products to avoid having to display GM food labels from next

month.

 

Big food companies have caved in to consumer resistance and sought

non-GM sources for ingredients.

 

Despite earlier industry estimates that 40 to 60 per cent of processed

foods included GM ingredients, the largest supermarket chain,

Woolworths, now expects only " a handful " of its house brands may

require

GM labels.

 

The Australia New Zealand Food Authority says some packaged foods

containing ingredients from GM approved crops are being sold now. These

include foods containing GM cottonseed oil, canola, soybean, sugar beet

and potato.

 

All packaged food with GM ingredients manufactured from December 7 will

have to list GM ingredients, with exceptions relating to highly refined

oils and sugars, and flavours.

 

Industry sources say the recipes for some packaged foods would have to

change to meet what are regarded as the world's toughest GM label

rules.

The changes are not expected to raise prices.

 

Australia's biggest food conglomerate, Goodman Fielder, says it has

changed suppliers of some ingredients - but not many - to meet the new

rules.

 

None of its brands would require a GM label, Goodman Fielder's

corporate

affairs director, Robert Hadler, said.

 

The company had checked thousands of sources worldwide to ensure they

were non-GM.

 

" The customer is always right and the customer is concerned about the

effects of GM ingredients. The major retailers don't want products with

GM in them, " Mr Hadler said.

 

The 40-60 per cent estimate of GM food was " a worst-case scenario "

estimated before Australasian food ministers agreed to the label regime

in July last year. The decision came after a Herald poll showed 93 per

cent of Australians wanted GM labels.

 

Sanitarium's technical manager, Dr Greg Gambrill, said his company had

done " an enormous amount of work " to arrange non-GM sources for

ingredients such as soy beans.

 

 

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