GM beer to hit the shelves

02-Feb-2004 Last updated on 18-Mar-2017 at 02:12 GMT

A brewer in Sweden is facing the GM debate head on. The company claims to have launched the first food product to use genetic modification as a marketing tool.

Tinned GM sweetcorn to land in EU trolleys?

30-Jan-2004

An end to Europe's unofficial five-year ban on new biotech crops could be imminent as the Commission backs proposals to import a new GM sweetcorn. Ministers in the EU 15 have three months to decide on the fate of the biotech foodstuff. If they say no,...

UK supermarkets to stay GM-free

27-Jan-2004

Consumer indifference - not to say hostility - towards genetically-modified products in the UK means that British supermarkets are likely to stay firmly GM-free in 2004, according to an annual survey of retailers carried out by www.gmfoodnews.com.

Traces of GM DNA found in digestive tract

21-Jan-2004

As fierce opposition to genetically modified plants continues across the globe, findings from a breakthrough study in the UK suggest that foreign DNA can survive to the small intestine, providing fuel to the anti-GMO fire.