Release the food labelling guidelines
Jason Major
TechNyou
There is some angst over the government review of food labelling guidelines, which include GM foods.
The one argument that will cause most controversy is the call to have meat labelled as coming from sources that have been fed GM material. If this gets any serious airing then I suspect that farmers and feed manufacturers and any industry in the processing chain will have something to say as the cost of setting up a monitoring and tracing system for every ingredient fed to livestock that is or may be genetically modified will come at a cost, and someone has to pay for it.
Where we are now
Food Standards Australian New Zealand’s web site will outline what the labelling laws are at the moment.
And for anyone really into genetically modified livestock feed the Dept of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry has a series of publications and reports on the issue.
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