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 Whole Foods Market, the grocery chain, on Friday became the first retailer in the United States to require labeling of all genetically modified foods sold in its stores, a move that some experts said could radically alter the food industry. 
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
 A. C. Gallo, president of Whole Foods, said the new labeling requirement, to be in place within five years, came in response to consumer demand. “We’ve seen how our customers have responded to the products we do have labeled,” Mr. Gallo said. “Some of our manufacturers say they’ve seen a 15 percent increase in sales of products they have labeled.” 
  
 Genetically modified ingredients are deeply embedded in the global food supply, having proliferated since the 1990s. Most of the corn and soybeans grown in the United States, for example, have been genetically modified. The alterations make soybeans resistant to a herbicide used in weed control, and causes the corn to produce its own insecticide. Efforts are under way to produce a genetically altered apple that will spoil less quickly, as well as genetically altered salmon that will grow faster. The announcement ricocheted around the food industry and excited proponents of labeling. “Fantastic,” said Mark Kastel, co-director of the Cornucopia Institute, an organic advocacy group that favors labeling. 
  
 The Grocery Manufacturers Association, the trade group that represents major food companies and retailers, issued a statement opposing the move. “These labels could mislead consumers into believing that these food products are somehow different or present a special risk or a potential risk,” Louis Finkel, the organization’s executive director of government affairs, said in the statement. 
  
 Mr. Finkel noted that the Food and Drug Administration, as well as regulatory and scientific bodies including the World Health Organization and the American Medical Association, had deemed genetically modified products safe. 
  
 The labeling requirements announced by Whole Foods will include its 339 stores in the United States and Canada. Since labeling is already required in the European Union, products in its seven stores in Britain are already marked if they contain genetically modified ingredients. The labels currently used show that a product has been verified as free of genetically engineered ingredients by the Non GMO Project, a nonprofit certification organization. The labels Whole Foods will use in 2018, which have yet to be created, will identify foods that contain such ingredients. 
  
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 The shift by Whole Foods is the latest in a series of events that has intensified the debate over genetically modified foods. Voters defeated a hard-fought ballot initiative in California late last year after the biotech industry, and major corporations like PepsiCo and Coca-Cola, spent millions of dollars to fight the effort. Other initiatives have qualified for the ballot in Washington State and Missouri, while consumers across the country have been waging a sort of guerrilla movement in supermarkets, pasting warning stickers on products suspected of having G.M.O. ingredients from food companies that oppose labeling. Proponents of labeling insist that consumers have a right to know about the ingredients in the food they eat, and they contend that some studies in rats show that bioengineered food can be harmful. 
  
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 Gary Hirshberg, chairman of Just Label It, a campaign for a federal requirement to label foods containing genetically modified ingredients, called the Whole Foods decision a “game changer.” 
  
 “We’ve had some pretty big developments in labeling this year,” Mr. Hirshberg said, adding that 22 states now have some sort of pending labeling legislation. “Now, one of the fastest-growing, most successful retailers in the country is throwing down the gantlet.” 
  
 He compared the potential impact of the Whole Foods announcement to Wal-Mart’s decision several years ago to stop selling milk from cows treated with growth hormone. Today, only a small number of milk cows are injected with the hormone. 
  
 Karen Batra, a spokeswoman for BIO, a trade group representing the biotech industry, said it was too early to determine what impact, if any, the Whole Foods decision would have. “It looks like they want to expand their inventory of certified organic and non-G.M.O. lines,” Ms. Batra said. “The industry has always supported the voluntary labeling of food for marketing reasons.” 
  
 She contended, however, that without scientific evidence showing that genetically modified foods caused health or safety issues, labeling was unnecessary. 
  
 Nonetheless, companies have shown a growing willingness to consider labeling. Some 20 major food companies, as well as Wal-Mart, met recently in Washington to discuss genetically modified labeling. 
  
 Coincidentally, the American Halal Company, a food company whose Saffron Road products are sold in Whole Foods stores, on Friday introduced the first frozen food, a chickpea and spinach entree, that has been certified not to contain genetically modified ingredients. 
  
 More than 90 percent of respondents to a poll of potential voters in the 2012 elections, conducted by the Mellman Group in February last year, were in favor of labeling genetically modified foods. Some 93 percent of Democrats and 89 percent of Republicans in the poll, which had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percent, favored it. 
  
 But in the fight over the California initiative, Proposition 37, the opponents succeeded in persuading voters that labeling would have a negative effect on food prices and the livelihood of farmers. 
  
 That fight, however, has cost food companies in other ways. State legislatures and regulatory agencies are pondering labeling on their own, and consumers have been aggressive in criticizing some of the companies that fought the initiative, using Twitter and Facebook to make their views known. 
  
 Buoyed by what they see as some momentum in the labeling war, consumers, organic farmers and food activists plan to hold an “eat-in” outside the F.D.A.’s offices next month to protest government policies on genetically modified crops and foods. Whole Foods, which specializes in organic products, tends to be favored by those types of consumers, and it enjoys strong sales of its private-label products, whose composition it controls. The company thus risks less than some more traditional food retailers in taking a stance on labeling. 
  
 In 2009, Whole Foods began submitting products in its 365 Everyday Value private-label line to verification by the Non GMO Project. 
  
 But even Whole Foods has not been immune to criticism on the G.M.O. front. A report by Cornucopia, “Cereal Crimes,” revealed that its 365 Corn Flakes line contained genetically modified corn. By the time the report came out in October 2011, the product had been reformulated and certified as organic. 
  
 Today, Whole Foods’ shelves carry some 3,300 private-label and branded products that are certified, the largest selection of any grocery chain in the country. 
  
 Mr. Gallo said Whole Foods did not consult with its suppliers about its decision and informed them of it only shortly before making its announcement Friday. He said Whole Foods looked forward to working with suppliers on the labeling. ||||| Retail Whole Foods plans GMO disclosure labels by 2018 
  
 March 8, 2013 at 6:08 PM ET 
  
 Steven Senne / AP 
  
 Whole Foods Markets will require all products sold in its U.S. and Canadian stores to carry a label by 2018 saying whether they contain genetically modified organisms (GMOs), the organic and natural grocery seller said on Friday. 
  
 The United States is the world's largest market for foods made with genetically altered ingredients. Many popular processed foods - including soy milk, soup and breakfast cereal - are made with soybeans, corn and other biotech crops whose genetic traits have been manipulated, often to make them resistant to insects and pesticides. 
  
 Whole Foods said the prevalence of GMOs in the United States, coupled with a lack of labeling requirements, has made it very difficult for retailers to source non-GMO options and for consumers to identify them. 
  
 "We are stepping up our support of certified organic agriculture, where GMOs are not allowed, and we are working together with our supplier partners to grow our non-GMO supply chain," Walter Robb, co-chief executive of Whole Foods, said in a statement. 
  
 The United States does not require safety testing for genetically modified ingredients before they go to market. The food industry says the products are safe, but critics say there is a not enough independent research to make that determination. 
  
 "We're responding to our customers, who have consistently asked us for GMO labeling and we are doing so by focusing on where we have control: in our own stores," Robb said. 
  
 The announcement from Whole Foods comes as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration appears to be on the path to approving genetically engineered salmon. 
  
 At the same time, consumer groups are working at the state and federal level to require labels on products that contain GMOs. 
  
 Dozens of countries already have genetically modified food labeling requirements, with the European Union imposing mandatory labeling in 1997. Since then, genetically modified products and crops have virtually disappeared from those markets. 
  
 Whole Foods in 2009 began putting its 365 Everyday Value product line through non-GMO verification. The chain currently sells 3,300 non-GMO Project verified products, such as its organic tofu, and plans to increase that number. 
  
 Information from Reuters was included in this report. 
  
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– In an industry first, Whole Foods promises that all genetically modified food sold in its stores will be clearly labeled as GMO products by 2018, reports NBC News. The chain says there's a growing demand by consumers to choose, but it's difficult to do so because current law doesn't require such labeling. It's also smart business, adds President AC Gallo. “We’ve seen how our customers have responded to the products we do have labeled," he says. “Some of our manufacturers say they’ve seen a 15% increase in sales of products" certified as non-GMO. The move could prove to be a big deal, reports the New York Times. One advocate from the group Just Label It calls it a "game changer" and says it could have the same effect as Walmart's decision a while back to stop selling milk from cows injected with growth hormone. As a result of Walmart's move, relatively few dairy cows around the US now get the hormone.
Skriv en sammanfattning baserad på denna artikel: Foto Annons Fortsätt läsa huvudberättelsen Hela livsmedelsmarknaden, livsmedelskedjan, på fredagen blev den första återförsäljaren i USA att kräva märkning av alla genetiskt modifierade livsmedel som säljs i dess butiker, ett drag som vissa experter sade kunde radikalt förändra livsmedelsindustrin. A. C. Gallo, ordförande för Whole Foods, sade den nya märkningskrav, att vara på plats inom fem år, kom som svar på konsumenternas efterfrågan. “Vi har sett hur våra kunder har svarat på de produkter vi har märkt,” Mr Gallo sade. “Några av våra tillverkare säger att de har sett en 15-procentig ökning av försäljningen av produkter som de har märkt.” Genetiskt modifierade ingredienser är djupt inbäddade i den globala livsmedelsförsörjningen, efter att ha ökat sedan 1990-talet. De flesta majs- och sojabönor som odlas i USA har till exempel modifierats genetiskt. Ändringarna gör sojabönor resistenta mot en herbicid som används i ogräsbekämpning, och gör att majsen producerar sitt eget insektsmedel. Det pågår ansträngningar för att producera ett genetiskt modifierat äpple som kommer att förstöras mindre snabbt, liksom genetiskt modifierad lax som kommer att växa snabbare. Tillkännagivandet rikoschetterade runt i livsmedelsindustrin och glada förespråkare för etikettering. “Fantastisk,” sade Mark Kastel, medregissör för Cornucopia Institute, en organisk intressebevakning grupp som föredrar märkning. Föreningen för livsmedelstillverkare, den branschgrupp som företräder stora livsmedelsföretag och detaljister, utfärdade ett uttalande som motsatte sig flytten. “Dessa etiketter kan vilseleda konsumenterna att tro att dessa livsmedel är på något sätt annorlunda eller utgör en särskild risk eller en potentiell risk,” Louis Finkel, organisationens verkställande direktör för statliga angelägenheter, sade i uttalandet. Finkel konstaterade att Food and Drug Administration, liksom regulatoriska och vetenskapliga organ, däribland Världshälsoorganisationen och American Medical Association, hade bedömt genetiskt modifierade produkter som säkra. De märkningskrav som tillkännages av Whole Foods kommer att inkludera sina 339 butiker i USA och Kanada. Eftersom märkning redan krävs i Europeiska unionen är produkter i dess sju butiker i Storbritannien redan märkta om de innehåller genetiskt modifierade ingredienser. De etiketter som för närvarande används visar att en produkt har kontrollerats som fri från genetiskt modifierade ingredienser av Non GMO Project, en icke-vinstdrivande certifieringsorganisation. Etiketterna Helfoder kommer att användas under 2018, som ännu inte har skapats, kommer att identifiera livsmedel som innehåller sådana ingredienser. Annons Fortsätt läsa huvudberättelsen Skiftet av Whole Foods är det senaste i en serie händelser som har intensifierat debatten om genetiskt modifierade livsmedel. Väljare besegrade en hårdnackad valkampanj i Kalifornien sent förra året efter bioteknikindustrin, och stora företag som PepsiCo och Coca-Cola, spenderade miljontals dollar för att bekämpa ansträngningen. Andra initiativ har kvalificerat sig för omröstningen i Washington State och Missouri, medan konsumenter över hela landet har fört en sorts gerillarörelse i stormarknader, klistra varningsdekaler på produkter som misstänks ha G.M.O. ingredienser från livsmedelsföretag som motsätter sig märkning. Förespråkare för märkning insisterar på att konsumenterna har rätt att veta om ingredienserna i maten de äter, och de hävdar att vissa studier på råttor visar att biotekniska livsmedel kan vara skadliga. Annons Fortsätt läsa huvudberättelsen Annons Fortsätt läsa huvudberättelsen Gary Hirshberg, ordförande för Just Label It, en kampanj för ett federalt krav på att märka livsmedel som innehåller genetiskt modifierade ingredienser, kallas hela Foods beslut en “game changer.” “Vi har haft några ganska stora utvecklingar i märkning i år,” Mr Hirshberg sade, tillägger att 22 stater nu har någon form av väntande märkning lagstiftning. “Nu, en av de snabbast växande, mest framgångsrika återförsäljare i landet kastar ner gantlet.” Han jämförde den potentiella effekten av Whole Foods meddelande till Wal-Mart beslut för flera år sedan att sluta sälja mjölk från kor som behandlats med tillväxthormon. Idag injiceras endast ett litet antal mjölkkor med hormonet. Karen Batra, en taleskvinna för BIO, en branschgrupp som företräder bioteknikindustrin, sade att det var för tidigt att avgöra vilken inverkan, om någon, hela Foods-beslutet skulle få. – Det ser ut som om de vill utöka sin inventering av certifierade ekologiska och icke-G.M.O. repliker,” Ms Batra sade. ”Industrin har alltid stött frivillig märkning av livsmedel av marknadsföringsskäl.” Hon hävdade dock att utan vetenskapliga bevis som visar att genetiskt modifierade livsmedel orsakade hälso- eller säkerhetsproblem var märkning onödig. Företagen har dock visat en växande vilja att överväga märkning. Ett tjugotal stora livsmedelsföretag, liksom Wal-Mart, träffades nyligen i Washington för att diskutera genetiskt modifierad märkning. Av en tillfällighet introducerade American Halal Company, ett livsmedelsföretag vars Saffron Road-produkter säljs i Whole Foods-butiker, på fredagen den första frysta maten, en kikärt och spenatförrättning, som har certifierats för att inte innehålla genetiskt modifierade ingredienser. Mer än 90 procent av de som svarade på en opinionsundersökning av potentiella väljare i valet 2012, som genomfördes av Mellmangruppen i februari förra året, var för märkning av genetiskt modifierade livsmedel. Omkring 93 procent av demokraterna och 89 procent av republikanerna i opinionsundersökningen, som hade en felmarginal på plus eller minus 3,1 procent, var positiva till det. Men i kampen om Kalifornieninitiativet, proposition 37, lyckades motståndarna övertyga väljarna om att märkning skulle ha en negativ effekt på livsmedelspriserna och jordbrukarnas försörjning. Denna kamp har dock kostat livsmedelsföretagen på andra sätt. Statliga lagstiftande organ och tillsynsmyndigheter funderar på att märka på egen hand, och konsumenter har varit aggressiva i att kritisera några av de företag som bekämpade initiativet, med hjälp av Twitter och Facebook för att framföra sina åsikter. Uppblåst av vad de ser som en viss drivkraft i märkningskriget planerar konsumenter, ekologiska jordbrukare och livsmedelsaktivister att hålla en ”ät-in” utanför FDA:s kontor nästa månad för att protestera mot regeringens politik om genetiskt modifierade grödor och livsmedel. Whole Foods, som är specialiserat på ekologiska produkter, tenderar att gynnas av dessa typer av konsumenter, och det har en stark försäljning av sina privata produkter, vars sammansättning det kontrollerar. Företaget riskerar därmed mindre än några mer traditionella livsmedelshandlare att ta ställning till märkning. 2009 började Whole Foods skicka in produkter i sin 365 Everyday Value private-märkning linje för att verifieras av Non GMO Project. Men inte ens Whole Foods har varit immun mot kritik mot G.M.O. Framifrån. En rapport från Cornucopia, “Cereal Crimes”, avslöjade att dess 365 Corn Flakes linje innehöll genetiskt modifierad majs. När rapporten kom ut i oktober 2011 hade produkten omformulerats och certifierats som ekologisk. Idag har Whole Foods hyllor omkring 3 300 privata märken och märkesprodukter som är certifierade, det största urvalet av alla livsmedelskedjor i landet. Mr Gallo sade Hela Foods inte samråda med sina leverantörer om sitt beslut och informerade dem om det bara strax innan de gjorde sitt tillkännagivande fredag. Han sa att Whole Foods såg fram emot att arbeta med leverantörer på etiketten. 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Många populära bearbetade livsmedel - däribland sojamjölk, soppa och frukostflingor - görs med sojabönor, majs och andra biotekniska grödor vars genetiska egenskaper har manipulerats, ofta för att göra dem resistenta mot insekter och bekämpningsmedel. Hela livsmedel sade att förekomsten av genetiskt modifierade organismer i USA, tillsammans med en brist på märkningskrav, har gjort det mycket svårt för återförsäljare att få icke-GMO alternativ och för konsumenterna att identifiera dem. "Vi ökar vårt stöd för certifierat ekologiskt jordbruk, där GMO inte är tillåtet, och vi samarbetar med våra leverantörspartner för att utveckla vår icke-GMO-försörjningskedja", säger Walter Robb, chefschef för Whole Foods i ett uttalande. Förenta staterna kräver inga säkerhetstester av genetiskt modifierade ingredienser innan de släpps ut på marknaden. Livsmedelsindustrin säger att produkterna är säkra, men kritiker menar att det inte finns tillräckligt med oberoende forskning för att göra denna beslutsamhet. "Vi svarar våra kunder, som konsekvent har bett oss om GMO-märkning och vi gör det genom att fokusera på var vi har kontroll: i våra egna butiker", sa Robb. Tillkännagivandet från Whole Foods kommer när den amerikanska Food and Drug Administration verkar vara på väg att godkänna genetiskt modifierad lax. Samtidigt arbetar konsumentgrupper på statlig och federal nivå för att kräva etiketter på produkter som innehåller genetiskt modifierade organismer. Dussintals länder har redan krav på genetiskt modifierad märkning av livsmedel, och Europeiska unionen införde obligatorisk märkning 1997. Sedan dess har genetiskt modifierade produkter och grödor praktiskt taget försvunnit från dessa marknader. Whole Foods började 2009 att sätta sin 365 Everyday Value produktlinje genom icke-GMO verifiering. Kedjan säljer för närvarande 3 300 icke-GMO Project verifierade produkter, såsom dess ekologiska tofu, och planerar att öka det antalet. Information från Reuters togs med i denna rapport. Copyright 2014 Thomson Reuters. Â°°
Write a summary based on this article: Photo Advertisement Continue reading the main story The entire food market, the food chain, on Friday became the first retailer in the United States to demand the labelling of all genetically modified foods sold in its stores, a move that some experts said could radically change the food industry. A. C. Gallo, president of Whole Foods, said the new labelling requirement, to be in place within five years, came in response to consumer demand. “We’ve seen how our customers have responded to the products we’ve noticed,” Mr. Gallo said. “Some of our manufacturers say they have seen a 15% increase in sales of products they have noticed.” Genetically modified ingredients are deeply embedded in global food supply, having increased since the 1990s. For example, most maize and soya beans grown in the United States have been genetically modified. The changes make soybeans resistant to a herbicide used in weed control, and cause the corn to produce its own insecticide. Efforts are underway to produce a genetically modified apple that will be destroyed less quickly, as well as genetically modified salmon that will grow faster. The announcement ricocheted around in the food industry and happy advocates of labeling. “Fantastic,” said Mark Kastel, co-director of the Cornucopia Institute, an organic advocacy group that prefers labelling. The Association of Food Manufacturers, the industry group representing large food businesses and retailers, issued a statement opposing the move. “These labels may mislead consumers into believing that these foods are somehow different or present a particular risk or a potential risk,” Louis Finkel, the organization’s executive director of state affairs, said in the statement. Finkel noted that the Food and Drug Administration, as well as regulatory and scientific bodies, including the World Health Organization and the American Medical Association, had assessed genetically modified products as safe. The labelling requirements announced by Whole Foods will include their 339 stores in the United States and Canada. As labelling is already required in the European Union, products in its seven UK stores are already labelled if they contain genetically modified ingredients. The labels currently in use show that a product has been checked as free of genetically modified ingredients by the Non GMO Project, a non-profit certification organisation. The labels Full feed will be used in 2018, which have not yet been created, will identify foods containing such ingredients. Advertisement Continue reading the main story The shift of Whole Foods is the latest in a series of events that have intensified the debate on genetically modified foods. Voters defeated a hard-necked election campaign in California late last year after the biotechnology industry, and large companies such as PepsiCo and Coca-Cola, spent millions of dollars to fight the effort. Other initiatives have qualified for the vote in Washington State and Missouri, while consumers across the country have conducted a sort of guerrilla movement in supermarkets, pasting warning stickers on products suspected of having G.M.O. ingredients from food businesses that oppose labelling. Proponents of labelling insist that consumers have the right to know about the ingredients of the food they eat, and they argue that some studies on rats show that biotechnological foods can be harmful. Advertisement Continue reading the main story Advertisement Continue reading the main story Gary Hirshberg, president of Just Label It, a campaign for a federal demand to label foods containing genetically modified ingredients, called the whole Foods decision a “game changer.” “We’ve had some pretty big developments in labelling this year,” Mr. Hirshberg said, adding that 22 states now have some sort of pending labelling legislation. “Now, one of the fastest growing, most successful retailers in the country throws down the gantlet.” He compared the potential effect of Whole Foods’ message to Wal-Mart’s decision years ago to stop selling milk from cows treated with growth hormone. Today only a small number of dairy cows are injected with the hormone. Karen Batra, a spokeswoman for BIO, an industry group representing the biotechnology industry, said it was too early to determine the impact, if any, of the entire Foods decision. “It looks like they want to expand their inventory of certified organic and non-G.M.O. lines," Ms. Batra said. ‘Industry has always supported voluntary labelling of food for marketing reasons’, she argued, however, that without scientific evidence demonstrating that genetically modified food caused health or safety concerns, labelling was unnecessary. However, companies have shown a growing willingness to consider labelling. About twenty large food companies, like Wal-Mart, recently met in Washington to discuss genetically modified labelling. Coincidentally, the American Halal Company, a food company whose Saffron Road products are sold in Whole Foods stores, introduced on Friday the first frozen food, a chickpea and spinach preparation, which has been certified to not contain genetically modified ingredients. More than 90% of those who responded to a poll of potential voters in the 2012 election, conducted by the Mellman Group in February last year, were in favour of labelling genetically modified foods. About 93 percent of Democrats and 89 percent of Republicans in the poll, who had a margin of error of plus or minus 3.1 percent, were positive about that. But in the struggle for the California initiative, Bill 37, opponents managed to convince voters that labelling would have a negative effect on food prices and farmers' livelihood. However, this struggle has cost food businesses in other ways. State legislative bodies and regulators are thinking of labeling on their own, and consumers have been aggressive in criticizing some of the companies that were fighting the initiative, using Twitter and Facebook to express their views. Inflated by what they see as a certain driving force in the labelling war, consumers, organic farmers and food activists plan to keep an ‘eat-in’ outside the FDA office next month to protest government policy on genetically modified crops and food. Whole Foods, which specializes in organic products, tends to benefit from these types of consumers, and it has strong sales of its private products, the composition of which it controls. The company thus risks less than some more traditional food merchants taking a stand on labelling. In 2009, Whole Foods began submitting products in its 365 Everyday Value private labeling line to be verified by Non GMO Project. But even Whole Foods has not been immune to criticism of G.M.O. Front. A report from Cornucopia, “Cereal Crimes”, revealed that its 365 Corn Flakes line contained genetically modified maize. By the time the report came out in October 2011, the product had been reformulated and certified as organic. Today, Whole Foods has around 3,300 private brands and branded products certified, the largest selection of all food chains in the country. Mr. Gallo said Hela Foods did not consult with his suppliers about his decision and informed them of it just shortly before making their announcement Friday. He said Whole Foods was looking forward to working with suppliers on the label. 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Many popular processed foods - including soy milk, soup and breakfast cereals - are made with soybeans, maize and other biotechnological crops whose genetic properties have been manipulated, often to make them resistant to insects and pesticides. Whole food said that the presence of GMOs in the United States, along with a lack of labelling requirements, has made it very difficult for retailers to get non-GMO options and for consumers to identify them. "We are increasing our support for certified organic farming, where GMOs are not allowed, and we are working with our supplier partners to develop our non-GMO supply chain," says Walter Robb, Head of Whole Foods in a statement. The United States does not require safety testing of genetically modified ingredients before they are placed on the market. The food industry says the products are safe, but critics say that there is not enough independent research to make this determination. "We respond to our customers, who have consistently asked us for GMO labelling and we do so by focusing on where we have control: in our own stores," Robb said. The announcement from Whole Foods comes when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration appears to be about to approve genetically modified salmon. At the same time, consumer groups work at state and federal level to require labels on products containing GMOs. Dozens of countries already have requirements for genetically modified food labelling and the European Union introduced mandatory labelling in 1997. Since then, genetically modified products and crops have virtually disappeared from these markets. Whole Foods began 2009 to put its 365 Everyday Value product line through non-GMO verification. The chain currently sells 3,300 non-GMO Project verified products, such as its organic tofu, and plans to increase that number. Information from Reuters was included in this report. Copyright 2014 Thomson Reuters. <unk>
– I en bransch först lovar Whole Foods att all genmodifierad mat som säljs i dess butiker tydligt ska märkas som GMO-produkter senast 2018, rapporterar NBC News. Kedjan säger att det finns en växande efterfrågan hos konsumenterna att välja, men det är svårt att göra det eftersom gällande lag inte kräver sådan märkning. Det är också smart affärer, tillägger president AC Gallo. – Vi har sett hur våra kunder har reagerat på de produkter vi har märkt, säger han. “Några av våra tillverkare säger att de har sett en 15% ökning i försäljning av produkter” certifierade som icke-GMO. Flytten kan visa sig vara en stor grej, rapporterar New York Times. En förespråkare från gruppen Just Label It kallar den en "spelväxlare" och säger att den kunde ha samma effekt som Walmarts beslut för ett tag sedan att sluta sälja mjölk från kor som injicerats med tillväxthormon. Till följd av Walmarts flytt får relativt få mjölkkor runt om i USA nu hormonet.
“In an industry first Whole Foods promises that all genetically modified food sold in its stores will be clearly labelled as GMO products by 2018, reports NBC News. The chain says that there is a growing demand for consumers to choose, but it is difficult to do so because current law does not require such labelling. It's also smart business, adds President AC Gallo. “We have seen how our customers have reacted to the products we have noticed,” he says. “Some of our manufacturers say they have seen a 15% increase in product sales” certified as non-GMO. The move may turn out to be a big deal, reports the New York Times. An advocate from the Just Label It group calls it a "game changer" and says it could have the same effect as Walmart's decision a while ago to stop selling milk from cows injected with growth hormone. As a result of Walmart's move, relatively few dairy cows around the United States are now allowed the hormone.