This mounting, widespread concern about GE food products is clearly reflected in numerous opinion polls. Consumer resistance is having an impact. Due to consumer pressure several national retailers and food producers, as well as national subsidiaries of multi-national companies, have given guarantees to keep GE ingredients out of their products. In August 2000, Novartis, one of the world's leading producers of GE seeds, informed Greenpeace that it would no longer use GE ingredients in any of its food products worldwide. Unfortunately, many companies do not provide consumers with the same rights in all countries.
Double standards are still common.
Consumers have the right to know about GE ingredients in their food and the right to avoid GE food. Argentina Belgium France Germany Luxembourg Netherlands United Kingdom USA Also visit Greenpeace Italy's virtual supermarket and Greenpeace Mexico's network of GE free Tortiller as .