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- 2000
- Advanta admits separation distances in UK far closer than Canada
- Advanta to pay up
- Britain's babies back baby food ban
- Buy it from farmers' markets
- Buy your festive feast from local farmers
- Cadbury's admits its chocolate contains lindane
- Call for new biotech commission to halt spread of GM seeds
- Children get raw deal from Government
- Euro MPs fail GM Test
- Farm scale trials must be called off
- First UK organic beer festival held in Birmingham
- FOE responds to Prince Philip's confidence about GM foods
- Food Standards Agency could do better
- GM farm scale trial is useless
- GM farm scale trials threaten UK honey
- GM farmers pull out of trials
- GM scientist deserves sack says Friends of the Earth
- GM trials are a farce
- Government gambling with countryside
- Government in chaos over GM seeds
- Government in shambles over GM mistake
- Government prepares to decide commercial approval for GM crops before trial ends
- Government proposes to trash GM trials
- Hormone disrupting chemicals found in baby food
- Iceland to stock organic food at non-organic prices
- Illegal GM ingredients found in supermarkets
- Lindane is banned - nearly
- More GM crops set for Wales
- MPs debate new law on GM liability
- New fears over impact of GM crops on birdlife
- Public wants pesticides banned from supermarket food
- Scientists slam GM research
- Supermarket Real Food sham
- Top insurer says no to GM pollution cover
- Wales can ban GM
- Welsh agriculture secretary bottles out of Assembly decision on GM
- Aventis criticised by Government barrister
- Baby Blair greeted with hamper of Real Food
- Biosafety Protocol Agreed
- Biotech giant clams up at GM Seed List Hearing
- Call for pesticide tax
- Church advisers say no to GM crop trials
- Diners still worry about GM food
- FOE slams Krebs over organic food
- GM contamination inevitable admits Meacher
- GM food scare hits US taco lovers
- GM seed fiasco means farmers start to dig up crops
- GM-free diet for Iceland livestock
- Government GM policy in tatters
- Government set to give go-ahead to commercial licensing
- Hold on the milk says top scientist
- Kiss of death for GM seed
- Pesticides level rise in fruit AND veg
- Promising green speech from Blair?
- Shock admission that GM crops are already growing in the UK
- Supermarkets back organic farming bill
GM food scare hits US taco lovers25 September 2000
Millions of taco shells have been taken off store shelves in the US, after some were found to contain GM corn not approved for human consumption. The discovery was made during lab tests carried out for Friends of the Earth US.
Significant levels of a type of GM corn called StarLink were discovered in Taco Bell taco shells during lab tests in the US last week. StarLink, manufactured by biotech giant Aventis, has Federal approval to be grown as animal feed but cannot be used in human food because it 'exhibits some characteristics of known allergens'. The voluntary recall comes after an investigation launched last week by the US Food and Drug Administration which described StarLink in human food as 'unlawful'.
"The US is experiencing one of the dangerous side-effects of GM technology that Friends of the Earth has warned about for many years. Food contaminated with GM ingredients unlicensed for human consumption is now being withdrawn from American shelves," said Friends of the Earth Real Food Campaigner, Adrian Bebb. "No-one knows if this dangerous GM ingredient has found its way into other food items; it could be just the tip of the iceberg. This is also alarming news for British consumers because large quantities of corn are imported from the US. What steps are the Food Standards Agency taking to ensure that our food is safe from this GM contamination?"
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