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Greenpeace Southeast Asia conducted surveys
with food manufacturers and retailers in Thailand inquiring
them about their policies regarding genetically modified
organisms in food. Apart from the policy statements/questionnaires,
supporting documents, e.g. certificates from suppliers,
product testing results, were also required.
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Greenpeace, from time to time, takes
samples of the products on supermarket shelves for laboratory
testing at an independent DNA laboratory. Then we categorized
the companies and their products into 3 lists based mainly
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Note: The lists are periodically updated according to changes
in companies’ policies and latest test results. Please visit
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Watch what you eat
Take precautionary measures
by avoiding food that were found to contain genetically modified
ingredients until the companies/manufacturers of that product
have implemented a non-GMO policy.
Question imported food from the United
States of America, Argentina, or Canada. Together, their GMO acreage
are more than 95% of the total GMO acreage around the world. Click
here to view the True Food Guide in the United States of America
(www.truefoodnow.org)
If a specific company isn't listed on
this guide,
check the label of its products to see whether the ingredients
contain soya, maize, products derived from soya or maize or canola
oil or cotton seed oil. Major GMO crops that are commercially
grown and sold as food crops at the moment are soybeans, maize,
canola and cotton. Therefore there is a risk that ingredients
derived from these crops could be genetically modified. So if
you want to know whether this product contains GMO ingredients,
contact the company to know whether it has a non-GMO policy."
Eat traditional fresh fruits and vegetables
locally grown in Thailand since they have not been genetically
engineered.
Buy food with raw materials that are
grown domestically since the Thai cabinet has imposed a ban on
commercial growing and field trials of GMO crops.
Consume organic food where applicable. Besides not using chemicals,
one of a requirements for organic agriculture is to be non-GMO.
Information about organic food and their availability can be obtained
from Green Net at 0-2651-9055
Use your consumer rights
Tell the food manufacturers/companies
that you don't want any GMO ingredients in your food by calling
them, sending them letters or emails. Their numbers are listed
in this guide. Usually the manufacturer's contact address and
phone number appears on the label on the side of the package.
Some of multinational food companies are practicing double standards
by announcing a non-GMO policy in some countries especially in
Europe but still use GMO ingredients in Asia. As a consumer, we
can demand the same standards all over the world.
Ask supermarkets/food
retailers in your neighborhood whether they are implementing a
non-GMO policy or not, and request only non-GMO ingredients.
Demand for consumers' right to know and
right to say no to GMOs by writing letters or calling the government
or the Prime Minister asking for a comprehensive and strict labeling
regulation and a ban on GMO imports for the safety of our children
and food security of the nation.
Office of the Prime Minister: Tel. 0-2280-3777, 0-2282-8874;
Fax: 0-280-1443
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Your Power as a Consumer
If GMO food is not what you want,
If you need natural food without
foreign genes,
Join our consumer group.
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If
you wish to receive a printed version of the True Food Guide (available
in Thai only), please enclose an envelope addressed to yourself
with a 5 baht-stamp (for mailing within Thailand) and send it
to:
Greenpeace Southeast Asia (True Food Guide)
Monririn Bldg. Room C 202 60/1 Paholyothin 8, Samsen Nai,Phaya
Thai, Bangkok 10400
For further questions, please contact
the above address, email no.gmo@th.greenpeace.org
or call our GMO Hotline at 0-2616-8170 (from 10 am to 6 pm, Monday
to Friday)
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