Labeling
Hong
Kong In February
2001, the Hong Kong government proposed that food containing more than
5% GM materials should be labelled:
- Under
proposals developed by HK government, the food industry will been
encouraged to voluntarily label its GM products, or legislation will
be brought in to make labelling mandatory
- public
consultation process currently underway
- concerns
expressed by HK government, which has suggested that the new labelling
regime should ensure that the supply and cost of food would not be
adversely affected.
- according
to Hong Kong¹s Secretary of the Environment and Food Bureau,
implementation of labelling requirements is at least two years away
(For further
details, go to the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service Report on Hong
Kong Voluntary Labelling of GM foods) http://www.fas.usda.gov/gainfiles/200011/55678674.pdf |
Other
countries:
- Saudi
Arabia
- Australia
- Brazil
- Canada
- China
- Czech Republic
- European Union
- Israel
- Japan
- Korea
- Malaysia
- Russia
- Switzerland
- Taiwan
- Thailand
- USA
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