Go organic - organic foods should not contain any GM ingredients. Those bearing the Soil Association symbol are certified not to do so. Supermarkets are improving their range all the time in response to growing consumer demand, much of it in response to GM food. Statement updates on wholefood companies are available from Jenny Priestley at Goodness Foods - 01372 706611. Any meat and dairy products that are not not certified organic may well be from animals that have been fed GM material including material from trial sites.
Animal feed is a big worry.
It's how GM crops are quietly coming into the human food chain through the back door. Meat and dairy products are the very lifeline of the biotechnology industry. The antibiotic resistance marker genes contained in most crops would likely make animals resistant to some antibiotics, especially neomycin, which is used in animal feed. Until autumn 2000 Government Ministers and industry bodies reassured consumers that a heating process used in feed manufacture killed any DNA in animal fodder but an independent study by the Advisory Committee on Animal Feeding Stuffs revealed in October 2000 that GM genes are surviving the manufacturing process which turns GM crops into animal food, making it entirely possible that large fragments of genetically modified DNA could be entering the human food chain, according to the committee. This means that products such as chicken, turkey, beef and pork may be contaminated with modified genes if the animals they are from have been fed on GM feed.