The step comes after massive protests by environmental and consumers organisations as well as scientists and lawmakers in Brazil.
Brazil is the world's second biggest exporter of soyabeans.
Soyabeans are used in 60 per cent of processed supermarket food products including bread, pasta, yoghurt, chocolate and ice-cream. At the same time the UK retailer J. Sainsbury's announced that it will not sell any genetically engineered products under it's own label. We hope to see more supermarket chains and food producers join the GM-free consortium in the next few days. Haerlin added that other major food producers and retailers, such as Unilever in Germany and Austria, and 90 percent of all supermarkets in Austria and countless small producers have already declared that they are GM free. No supermarket or food producer can claim that it was not possible to avoid GM ingredients in their products.