Category Archives: GMO Food

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. … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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.

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →