Are there any legal requirements in relation to marketing products as GM Free?
Leaving the joint Australia/New Zealand Food Standards Code aside, ensuring that claims about the GM content of food are correct is extremely important given the high public interest in GM matters and the market advantage businesses can achieve when labelling food as GM Free. There is, however, a great deal of confusion among both businesses and consumers. Businesses are often confused as to what claims can be made on food labels. Consumers are often confused as to what is meant by the various GM claims that can appear on food labels. In a recent Commerce Commission decision, a vegetarian sausage manufacturer was fined $4,250 plus costs when it pleaded guilty to breaching the FTA for labelling its sausages “GMO Free” and “Non-GM”. The sausages were found to contain detectable amounts of GM Ready Roundup Soy in an audit by the New Zealand Food Safety Authority. The Commerce Commission stated that although the GM soy content in the sausages did not meet the threshold for requiring GM mat
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