Is there a difference between sugar from biotechnology-enhanced sugar beets and conventional sugar beet plants?
The sugar is the same no matter its original plant source or growing practice. Sugar – whether from sugar beets or sugar cane, or from sugar crops grown using convetional, biotech, or organic methods – is pure and natural and has the same nutritional value, composition and wholesomeness. Regulatory agencies around the world have reviewed Roundup Ready sugar beets and confirmed that the sugar beets and end-products derived from those sugar beets are the same as the food and feed products derived from today’s conventional sugar beets. This includes regulatory agencies in the United States (Food and Drug Administration), Canada (Health Canada), the European Union (European Food Safety Authority), Japan (The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan) and Australia and New Zealand (Food Standards Australia New Zealand). Additionally, independent scientific analyses conducted by internationally recognized laboratories utilizing state-of-the-art scientific methods showed that t
