By Nigel Hunt; editing by Peter Blackburn
Consumers are unwittingly eating food produced from genetically
modified crops with nearly all milk, dairy products and pork produced from
GMO-fed animals, the country's largest organic certification body said.
The Soil Association, which opposes GMO crops, said that a survey
estimated about 60 percent of maize and 30 percent of soya fed to dairy
cattle and pigs is genetically modified.

"Biotechnology companies have clearly used imported animal feed as a
Trojan Horse to introduce GM into the UK food chain," Soil Association
director Patrick Holden said in a statement.

There has been significant opposition to GMO crops among British
consumers.

The Soil Association, which certifies about 70 percent of the organic
food sold in Britain, said there was no requirement to label foods produced
from GMO-fed animals so shoppers found it hard to avoid these products.

Poultry producers have widely adopted non-GMO feed policies, in
contrast to dairy and pig sectors, but around one-third of eggs are from
GMO-fed hens, the Soil Association said.


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