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In January 2013, Poland's government placed a ban on Monsanto's GM corn, MON 810. It launched a communication campaign with farmers, announcing they will now be strictly monitoring farms for GM corn crops. Poland is the eighth EU member to ban the production of GMOs even though they have been approved by European Food Safety Authority.
World map of GMO agriculture (hectares) [1] The regulation of genetic engineering varies widely by country. Countries such as the United States, Canada, Lebanon and Egypt use substantial equivalence as the starting point when assessing safety, while many countries such as those in the European Union, Brazil and China authorize GMO cultivation on a case-by-case basis.
The European Commission has given countries the choice of opting out of GMOs, and a number of countries including Austria, Bulgaria, Denmark, Italy, France, Greece, Germany, Hungary, the ...
Traceability has become commonplace in the food and feed supply chains of most countries, but GMO traceability is more challenging given strict legal thresholds for unwanted mixing. Since 2001, conventional and organic food and feedstuffs can contain up to 0.9% of authorised modified material without carrying a GMO label.
These laws have been the source of much controversy and vary significantly by country. [1] In the European Union , stem cell research using the human embryo is permitted in Sweden , Spain , Finland , Belgium , Greece , Britain , Denmark and the Netherlands ; [ 2 ] however, it is illegal in Germany , Austria , Ireland , Italy , and Portugal .
Food additives have been a huge topic in the U.S. for years, but really caught fire earlier this month when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced a ban on red dye 3.
In 2014, 181.5 million hectares of genetically modified crops were planted in 28 countries. Half of all GM crops planted were genetically modified soybeans, either for herbicide tolerance or insect resistance. Eleven countries grew modified soybean, with the USA, Brazil and Argentina accounting for 90% of the total hectarage.
Getty Images About 20 years ago, a company now owned by Monsanto (MON) introduced the Flavr Savr tomato -- the first genetically modified organism approved for consumption in the United States.