GENETICALLY ENGINEERED FOOD LABELING LAWS
Greenland(Denmark)

RussiaIcelandBelarus
UkraineSee box below for European Detail

Kazakhstan

Mongolia

Moldova
Kyrgyzstan
UzbekistanAzerbaijan
Armenia
Turkmenistan
Tajikistan

Georgia

CanadaTurkeyMoroccoAlgeria

Libya

Egypt

BhutanPakistan

Nepal
TaiwanIndia

Oman
Mauritania

Mali

Niger

SenegalGuinea-Bissau
BelizeBahamasMexicoCuba
Jamaica
Guatemala
El Salvador

GuineaLiberia

Dominican
Haiti Republic

GrenadaAntigua & Barbuda
Trinidad & Tobago
Barbados
Saint Kitts & Nevis
Saint Vincent & the GrenadinesDominica
Saint Lucia

Honduras
Nicaragua

Costa Rica

PanamaVenezuela

Sudan

ChadEritrea

Burkina Faso
Ghana

Cote d'Ivoire

Ethiopia

SouthSudan

CentralAfrican Republic

Bangladesh

VietnamPhilippines

Cambodia

Somalia

Sri Lanka
Palau
Maldives

UgandaEquatorial
Congo
GuineaGabon

Laos
Thailand

Yemen

Cameroon
Togo
Benin

MyanmarDjibouti
NigeriaJapan

Afghanistan

Iran

KuwaitBahrain
Qatar
U.A.E.
Saudi Arabia

United States of America

South Korea

China

Syria
Cyprus Lebanon
Iraq
IsraelJordanTunisia

North Korea

Malaysia

Marshall Islands

BruneiSingapore
Nauru

Kenya
RwandaBurundi

DR Congo
Tanzania

GuyanaSuriname

Seychelles

Indonesia

Papua New Guinea

Solomon Islands

East Timor

Kiribati

Colombia
AngolaMalawi
ZambiaEcuador

Samoa
Zimbabwe

Mozambique

Namibia
Peru

BrazilFiji

Madagascar
Mauritius

Botswana
Swaziland

Australia

Lesotho

BoliviaSouth Africa

Paraguay

New Zealand

Chile

Uruguay

GE-freeArgentina

Official ban on genetically engineered (GE) food imports andcultivation.

Mandatory GE Food Labeling Laws

Detail of Labeling in Europe
The European Union (EU) has a single mandatory GE food labeling
regulation.

Mandatory labeling of nearly all GE foods and a labeling thresholdof 0.9-1% GE content. Threshold refers to content per ingredientin each food item.
Mandatory labeling of many GE foods and a labeling thresholdhigher than 1% or undefined. This includes laws with a thresholdof 1% for the entire food item.
Mandatory labeling of some GE foods, but with numerous exceptions
and no labeling threshold defined; or a vague mandatory GE foodlabeling law that lacks implemention and enforcement provisions.
Enacted mandatory GE food labeling regulation coming into force
at a later date.

Center for Food Safety completed the research for this map in September 2012
and will continue to update it as new information becomes available.
Last update: March, 2013

Non-EU nations on this inset:- Albania- Bosnia & Herzegovina- Croatia- Macedonia- Montenegro- Norway- Serbia- Switzerland

Finland
NorwaySwedenEstonia
LatviaFor more information, please contact:
Center for Food Safety
660 Pennsylvania Avenue SE
Suite 302
Washington, DC 20003(202) 547-9395
office@centerforfoodsafety.org

Lithuania

Denmark
IrelandU.K.

Netherlands

PolandGermany
Belgium
Lux

Czech Rep.
Slovakia

No GE Food Labeling LawDefinitions
Genetically engineered (GE) foods, sometimes referred to as genetically modified (GM) foods,
are created by artificially inserting genetic material from one or more organisms into the genetic
code of another using modern genetic engineering techniques.
Labeling threshold is the percentage of GE content in a food item above which the productmust be labeled.

FranceOriginal design by AMICI DESIGN/www.amici.com

Switzerland

Hungary

Slovenia
Croatia

First printing: July 2003
Second printing: September 2005
Third printing: September 2012
In order to create this map, CFS interpreted current law and expert analysis
to determine how best to represent large amounts of information in astraightforward graphic design. Each labeling regime has uniquevariations that are impossible to fully represent on a map. These laws
are dynamic and subject to amendment.

Austria

Italy

Romania
Bosnia &Herzegovina

SerbiaBulgaria
Montenegro
Macedonia
Albania

Spain
Portugal

GreeceMalta