UK Action Alert: Say NO to more GMOs in our food | Please respond before Tues 25 January | The Food Standards Agency (FSA – covering England and Wales) and Food Standards Scotland (FSS) plan to recommend to Ministers that nine genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are approved for use across the UK food chain. Four of the GMOs are already in use here but the approval that allows them into our food is overdue for renewal. The other five are new. All are engineered to poison insects, to withstand spraying with weed killers, or both.
This is the first time that UK Ministers will decide whether or not to allow specific GMOs into the food chain as we previously followed rules agreed in Brussels. The European Union has already approved all nine applications and FSA/FSS plan to recommend approval here. However, they have also asked for our views so it is important that they hear from those of us who see no role for GMOs in a responsible, fair, and sustainable food system.
Have your say before Tuesday 25 January – follow GM Freeze's guidance here.
GeneWatch UK's submission to the consultation, for your reference, is here.
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