Bangkok--Feb 4--Greenpeace Southeast Asia
Greenpeace today released a report demonstrating that the vast majority of top selling retailers and food & drink producers in Europe reject products or ingredients which require labelling as genetically modified (GM). Of the 60 companies contacted by Greenpeace, 49 have a clear non-GM policy in their main market or throughout the EU. These 49 companies represent European grocery sales of over Euro 646 billion, more than 60% of the total European food and drink sales of Euro 1069 billion.
"No market for GM labelled food in Europe" summarises the policy commitment of each company, giving quotes from many of them and contains tables of ranking by grocery sales, clear statements in which countries the non-GM policy applies and details of the brands and brand names under which they operate. The report also assesses the global implications of these policies, including a specific section highlighting what these policies mean for consumers in the US and
Canada.
The report can be read or downloaded from the Greenpeace website at:
http://www.greenpeace.org/international_en/multimedia/download/1/72465
8/0/mktnew.pdf
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