Canadian supermarkets have not, to this point, reacted to the possibility of genetically modified products being on their shelves. But that position may not last much longer. She is concerned about soy, canola, corn and potato products being most likely to contain genetically modified ingredients. Indeed there are hundreds, possibly thousands, of such products on the market already, involving everything from baby food to spaghetti sauce to the genetically modified potato now being used by some french fry companies. In Canada, where many of the genetically modified crops are actually grown, consumers aren't told which products contain the altered ingredients.
Nobody knows exactly how many genetically modified products are on our grocery shelves.
Because we lose track of the seeds before they get to the factory. When genetically modified canola or other oilseeds arrive at the mills, they're dumped into the same hopper as traditional seeds. The process is known in the industry as co-mingling. Industry officials insist that segregating genetically engineered seeds from traditional crops would be unnecessarily complicated and that the cost of segregating and labelling products containing them would be passed on to the consumer. Ingeborg Boyens doesn't buy that argument.