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September
2006
Greenpeace Southeast Asia conducted surveys with food manufacturers and retailers in Thailand inquiring them about their policies regarding genetically modified organisms in food.
Apart from the policy statements/questionnaires, supporting documents, e.g. certificates from suppliers, product testing results, were also required.
Greenpeace, from time to time, takes samples of the products on supermarket shelves for laboratory testing at an independent DNA laboratory. Then we categorized the companies and their products into 3 lists based mainly on their policies.
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15
August
2006
Use your consumer rights
Tell the food manufacturers/companies that you don’t want any GMO ingredients in your food by calling them, sending them letters or emails. Their numbers are listed in this guide. Usually the manufacturer’s contact address and phone number appears on the label on the side of the package.
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15
August
2006
Watch what you eat!
Take precautionary measures by avoiding food that were found to contain genetically modified ingredients until the companies/manufacturers of that product have implemented a non-GMO policy.
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13
August
2006
A genetically modified food is a food product derived in whole or part from a genetically modified organism (GMO) such as a crop plant, animal or microbe such as yeast. Genetically modified foods have been available since the 1990s. The principal ingredients of GM foods currently available are derived from genetically modified soybean, maize and canola.
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August
2006
Genetic modification involves genetic engineering, also known as gene splicing, a technique to splice together DNA fragments from more than one organism and thus preparing a “recombinant” DNA molecule in a test tube, producing a single piece of genetic material containing the original information from multiple fragments which can then be inserted into another organism.
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August
2006
genetically modified organism (GMO) is an organism whose genetic material has been altered using techniques in genetics generally known as recombinant DNA technology. Recombinant DNA technology is the ability to combine DNA molecules from different sources into the one molecule in a test tube. Thus, the abilities or the phenotype of the organism, or the proteins it produces, can be altered through the modification of its genes.
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