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- Title
GM labeling in China beset by problems.
- Authors
Jia, Hepeng
- Abstract
Rules that require crop and food producers to label genetically modified (GM) products in China are far from being fully implemented, more than a year after their deadlines have passed. According to industry insiders, the problem is due to the lack of a cost-effective method for detecting GM products with sufficient sensitivity, coupled with business concerns that labeling will result in a loss in competitiveness. These difficulties provide an early warning to regions that have also enacted labeling legislation, such as the European Union, whose rules were adopted at the beginning of July 2003 and the nations that signed the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety, which requires the identification of GM products destined for export once the protocol is implemented in September 2003.
- Subjects
GENETICALLY modified foods; FOOD labeling; FOOD laws; EUROPEAN Union
- Publication
Nature Biotechnology, 2003, Vol 21, Issue 8, p835
- ISSN
1087-0156
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/nbt0803-835