GE rice, wheat, cucumbers, strawberries, apples, sugarcane and walnuts are being grown on test sites. Consumer Reports, in its September 1999 edition, revealed that GE ingredients are becoming increasingly common . Some experts estimate that GE ingredients can be found in as many as two-thirds of all items on supermarket shelves . Even if you shop at the local health food store, you may be eating some genetically engineered foods. Corn products commonly found in processed foods include corn oil, corn starch, corn flour and corn syrup.
Animal products are another high-risk category.
Genetically modified organisms can find their way into meat, poultry, seafood, milk, cheese, yogurt and whey. Most of the corn and soybeans grown in the United States are fed to farm animals.