More than a dozen countries across the world are blocking, turning away or even destroying shipments of foodgrains and other crops for having traces of Genetically Modified organisms (GMOs), a survey by United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has revealed.
In the first survey of its kind, 75 out of 193 FAO member countries responded to questions on low levels of GM crops in international food and animal feed trade.
The number of such incidents where low levels of GMO have been detected in traded food and feedstocks has risen sharply in recent years in tandem with the increase in production of GM crops around the globe, states the report released Thursday.
The FAO survey report shows that 26 countries have rejected the food and feed following products testing having revealed that supposedly non-GM shipments contained GM produce. Such incidents have led to trade disruptions between countries.
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