http://thailand.life-beauty-spa.com Health Industry Insights Thu, 07 Jun 2007 13:36:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://thailand.life-beauty-spa.com/index.php/25/gmo-products-supermarkets-thailand/ 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. http://thailand.life-beauty-spa.com/index.php/24/use-your-consumer-rights/ 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. http://thailand.life-beauty-spa.com/index.php/23/avoid-genetically-modified-food/ 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 ... http://thailand.life-beauty-spa.com/index.php/22/genetically-modified-food/ 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 ... http://thailand.life-beauty-spa.com/index.php/21/methods-genetic-modification/ 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 ... http://thailand.life-beauty-spa.com/index.php/20/gmo-genetically-modified-organism/