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Friday, March 27, 2009

GM Ingredients Detected in Organic 'GM Free' Foods

Professor Mark Partridge and Professor Denis Murphy, from the biotechnology unit at the University of Glamorgan in Wales tested 25 products containing soya using an EU approved method for detecting traces of GM ingredients.

They found that 10 of the 25 samples tested positive for traces of GM ingredients, even though eight of the positive samples had been labelled 'GM free' or 'organic'. Four of the products that showed traces of GM were above the UK Soil Association's limit for organic food, including one vegetarian sausage mix which contained 0.7 per cent GM soya.

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