We think the products we produce are safe. Organic campaign group the Soil Association said that it was time for the British public to stop being used as human guinea pigs in trials for GM foods. We are treating our countryside as a laboratory and the human population as guinea pigs. At present the only food guaranteed to be GM-free is organic. The Government must stop all imports of GM foods on safety grounds.
Consumers are clearly extremely concerned and rightly so.
Retailers are under renewed pressure to tell their suppliers to remove all GM ingredients from own-label products immediately. The consumer has a right to make an informed choice. Later a leading scientist urged a top level urgent inquiry into GM foods. The call from Dr Ronald Finn, past president of the British Society of Allergy and Environmental Medicine, came at a Westminster news conference. He said the Royal Society would be a suitable organisation to look into the whole question.