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Industry employing bullying tactics to scupper GM food labelling in South Africa
Press release
GM-Labeling-zebraThe Biotech industry continues to stall the implementation of a GMO labelling regime, claiming that only a "lunatic fringe" or a "European funded lobby" want it, despite government's clear intentions in the Consumer Protection Act to grant the consumer's right to know and to choose.
Open letter to the National Chamber of Milling on GMO labelling and the development of a GM-Free market
Publication
In July 2012 the National Chamber of Milling (NCM) posted a ?position on Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) on its website, in which it supports the principle of consumer choice and pledges to ?encourage identity preservation within the grain supply chain to enable clear labelling of our product to the consumer market?.
Purity GMO Response
Press release
Dear Mariam
Thank you for taking the time and trouble to write to us personally. We value feedback from our customers and concerned members of the public.
Attached please find our response.
Yours sincerely,
Comments on: Draft amendments to regulations to the Consumer Protection Act related to labelling of GMOs 8 November 2012
Policy Submission
Comments on: Draft amendments to regulations to the Consumer Protection Act related to labelling of GMOs 8 November 2012.
Consumers win GM labelling victory
Press release
Consumers in South Africa have won a hard earned victory with regard to the labelling of genetically modified (GM) foods.
GMOs have made no impact on food security in South Africa in fourteen years. ACB responds to DA position
Comment
Press release
On the 5th of September 2012 James Wilmot, Democratic Alliance MP and Shadow Minister of Trade and Industry, issued a press release claiming that poor consumers cannot benefit from the "cost savings offered by GMOs" because genetically modified (GM) foods cannot be labelled.
GM Labeling in South Africa: The Law Demystified
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During March 2012, the ACB revealed that four household food products tested positive for genetically modified organisms.
GMO Watchdog to Lodge Complaint
Press release
Publication
Cautious welcome for mandatory labelling of GM food in South Africa
Press release
PRESS RELEASE FROM AFRICAN CENTRE FOR BIOSAFETY AND SAFEAGE 5 APRIL 2011, Johannesburg, and Cape Town, South Africa.
Call on South Africans to Back Labelling of GM Foods
Petition
Policy Submission
South Africa's food shelves are stocked with hundreds of products that contain Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs). These are organisms whose genetic material has been altered using genetic engineering techniques. The list includes:
Traceability, segregation and labelling of genetically modified products in South Africa: A Position paper on the implementation of the Consumer Protection Act and mandatory labelling of GM food
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South Africa has promulgated national legislation, the Consumer Protection Act (CPA), which creates an opportunity for the mandatory labelling of certain foodstuffs containing or which are genetically-modified organisms (GM