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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@gilanet.com>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Livingontheland] Organic growers call new labelling rules 'misleading'
  • Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2004 00:40:18 -0600


http://sask.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=labels040420

Organic growers call new labelling rules 'misleading'

SASKATOON - An organic farmer from Kenaston says the new voluntary
food labelling standards adopted by Ottawa are ridiculous.

The new rules allow food producers to claim their product is free of
any genetic engineering if there is less than a five per cent
contamination.

But Arnold Taylor says his customers will be misled if the labels are
not completely accurate.

"The organic consumer says zero per cent tolerance," says Taylor. "The
organic consumer who has a lot of input into how we develop our
standards doesn't want the stuff."

Taylor says he doesn't plan to use the voluntary labels to help sell
his organic crops. He says the labels are useless for marketing crops
outside Canada.

Just last week, the European Union implemented mandatory labelling
rules that allow less than a one per cent contamination by genetically
engineered products.

The committee that drew up the new labelling standards says they
represent agreement from consumer, farm, industry and government
agencies.





  • [Livingontheland] Organic growers call new labelling rules 'misleading', Tradingpost, 04/21/2004

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