Press releases

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GM Freeze tells new DEFRA officials to manage risks from new GMOs

Immediate release (29 Sep 2025)

Campaign group GM Freeze has today written to newly appointed officials at the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs …
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GM Freeze lodges complaint over DEFRA seed consultation Campaign group claims consultation is for businesses not the public

Immediate release (9 Apr 2025)

GM Freeze has today complained to the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs about its consultation on the marketing of …
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Regulate new GMOs responsibly Civil society organisations tell government

Immediate release (1 Oct 2024)

GM Freeze has today emailed the Minister for Food Security and Rural Affairs Daniel Zeichner urging him to act with caution …
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GM Freeze sends open letter to supermarkets calling on them to defend customers’ wishes on ‘precision bred’ organisms GM Freeze urges supermarkets to speak up for their customers to the Food Standards Agency

Immediate release (15 Dec 2023)

GM Freeze has today written to the UK’s leading supermarkets calling on them to respond to the current Food Standards Agency …
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GM Freeze lodges complaint to FSA over timing of consultation on Precision Bred Organism regulation The timing will prohibit participation by consumer-focussed businesses, says campaign group

Immediate release (15 Nov 2023)

GM Freeze has today sent an open letter of complaint to the Food Standards Agency regarding the timing of its consultation …
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No gene for system change GM Freeze comments on Farming Minster's support for genetically engineering farmed animals

Comment (25 Jul 2023)

Commenting on the suggestion, based on Farming Minister Mark Spencer’s evidence to an Environmental Audit Committee hearing, that genetically engineering cattle …
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Westminster Bill aims to impose new GMOs on UK citizens GM Freeze comments on the publication of the Government's Genetic Technology Bill

Comment (25 May 2022)

Commenting on the  the UK Government’s Genetic Technology Bill – and the news that Environment Minister George Eustice does not believe …
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We need system change not GM ketchup GM tomato won’t address the problem of vitamin D deficiency because poor nutrition is a function of poverty and a broken food system

Comment (23 May 2022)

Commenting on news that the John Innes Centre is growing GM tomatoes under new rules that allow experimental GMOs to be …
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Time for Government to start listening to ordinary people rather than those with a vested interest GM Freeze responds to Environment Minister's comments in the press about planned Genetic Technology Bill

Comment (20 May 2022)

Commenting on an article in The I, in which Environment Secretary George Eustice boasts that the Genetic Technology Bill will be …
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No public support for removal of GM safeguards GM Freeze responds to measures announced in Queen's Speech

Comment (10 May 2022)

Responding to plans for a Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill, announced in today’s Queen’s Speech and detailed on page 61 of …
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Genetic engineering needs the safety net of robust regulation GM Freeze responds to Defra plans for a high-tech free-for-all

Comment (29 Sep 2021)

Responding to the announcement that Environment Secretary George Eustice intends to push ahead with plans to remove new GM techniques (often …
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Burnt-toast GM wheat gets go-ahead Risky experimental crop to be released in an open field trial

Comment (27 Aug 2021)

Commenting on news that the Government has given the go-ahead to an open field trial of GM “low acrylamide” wheat at …
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Gene editing consultation pushes Government plan to remove vital safeguards Instead of working with people to understand their concerns, Defra is pushing a high-tech, quick-fix agenda

Comment (7 Jan 2021)

Responding to Environment Minister George Eustice’s speech launching a Defra consultation on plans to de-regulate gene editing, GM Freeze Director Liz …
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“Surrogate sires” are just media hype to improve the image of GMOs

Comment (15 Sep 2020)

Commenting on news that scientists from Edinburgh and the United States are using new GMO to develop an alternative to highly …
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GM groups call on the public: Ask Ministers to reject plans to deregulate genome editing

Immediate release (2 Jul 2020)

Three of the UK’s largest GM campaigns – GM Freeze, Beyond GM and GMWatch – have joined together to oppose an …
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Changing GMO definition would remove vital safeguards Plans to amend the Agriculture Bill would hand ministers power to deregulate genome editing

Comment (28 May 2020)

It has come to light that a group of MPs, backed by industry lobby groups, plans to table an amendment to …
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GM regulations are essential safeguards New PM misses the mark on GM in food and farming

Comment (26 Jul 2019)

Commenting on Boris Johnson’s view that we need to be “liberated” from GM regulations, GM Freeze Director Liz O’Neill said: If …
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Gene silencing plans make objectors shout louder Plans for new GM crop trial raise objections from leading environmental and farming organisations

Immediate release (16 Apr 2019)

Thirty-one organisations including some of the UK’s biggest environmental organisations, farmers, scientists, seed distributors and retailers lodged a formal objection today …
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Pick-and-mix GM crop plans are playing games with regulations Plans for new GM crop trials raise objections from leading environmental and farming organisations

Immediate release (21 Mar 2019)

Thirty-five organisations including some of the UK’s biggest environmental organisations, farmers, scientists, seed distributors and retailers yesterday lodged a formal objection …
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High iron doughnuts and promiscuous brassicas prompt objections to proposed GM field trials

Immediate release (26 Feb 2019)

Thirty-three organisations including farmers, researchers, seed distributors, retailers and environmentalists today lodged formal objections to proposed open-air field trials of biofortified …
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