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Products containing GM in the UK

In 2003 Greenpeace produced a 13 page booklet listing hundreds of products to help shoppers try to avoid buying GM foods. Since then overwhelming public rejection has succeeded in forcing most of these products off supermarket shelves or the replacement of the GM components with non-GM.

However, in recent months we have noticed a few GM products for sale in UK supermarkets. We want to develop a new list in order to help shoppers avoid these products and to help direct pressure on supermarkets to stop selling them.

If you find a product containing GM for sale in the UK, please send us:

the name of the product
the GM ingredient(s) concerned
the name and address of the shop where you found it
the date you saw the item for sale
a photograph of the label stating the GM content if at all possible
what, if anything, the store manager has to say in response to any complaint you make

Many thanks for your help. As long as some supermarkets say they are keeping an "open mind" about GM, we need to help them understand that their customers are still resolutely opposed.

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List of products containing GM in the UK

Product (found here/when)

KTC cooking oil (Tesco/from December 2008, Somerfield from March 2009)
Hershey's Nutrageous chocolate bars (Tesco/from January 2009, Sainsbury's/from March 2009)
Pride cooking oil (Tesco, Coop/from January 2007, Sainsbury's/from February 2008)
Schwartz Seasoned Salad Topping (Sainsbury's/from March 2009)
General Mills Bacos Bacon Flavour Soya chips (Tesco and Morrisons/March 2009)

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For a summary of how supermarkets handle GM animal feed in their meat, fish, eggs and dairy products, see our action here.

Last updated 14/09/2009 21:08:28