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China clears Heinz of GM items in baby food

China has officially given all 43 varieties of Heinz baby food products the clear from GM influence.

Greenpeace had claimed that Heinz baby cereal products designed, I think, specifically for the Chinese market, contained genetically modified ingredients. Heinz denied the claim but the Ministry of Agriculture in China decided to put the products through a series of tests to find out.

The official Xinhua News Agency has reported that the products and their raw ingredients were not made from genetically modified crops. Such foods are not yet approved for consumption in China as they continue researching the effect of modifications on agriculture in general.

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Tags: asia, baby food, BabyFood, china, food and drink, FoodAndDrink, genetically modified, GeneticallyModified, gm baby food, gm crops, gm food, gm foods, GmBabyFood, GmCrops, GmFood, GmFoods, greenpeace, heinz

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vatel

4-02-2006 @4:48PM vatel said... Why not, perhaps they know more...
this is not,not,not a aimable substituting message fe the chinese government..but theire right !
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schiller thurkettle

4-02-2006 @8:22PM schiller thurkettle said... This isn't the first time the greenpeacers have been caught with false findings. Same thing happened with those guys who found GM corn was growing "all over Mexico." Except nobody could find any of it. Greenpeace was behind that one, too. Oh well, Greenpeace never said they were scientists or think-tankers. And they keep falling off their boat or ramming it into stuff. At some point, people will stop taking these oddballs seriously.

Schiller.
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Andrew

4-02-2006 @8:28PM Andrew said... It's a shame really as quite a lot of what they fight against makes sense to me; it is with incorrect actions like this and those that Schiller mentions that gives them an air of desperation and general lack of credibility that I think puts people off their overall message.
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Ga V

4-03-2006 @8:08AM Ga V said... Nobody makes me it this products... What a shame
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Jeremy Gordon

4-10-2006 @7:55AM Jeremy Gordon said... China takes food safety very seriously, especially following recent problems with fake baby milk powder, cases of criminal poisoning, and the Sudan Red (industrial dye) incident last year (which also involved Heinz, as well as KFC and others). This improving oversight is good news for Chinese consumers, and foreign companies need to be sensitive to both the health and public relations issues.
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