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necessary to go through the same process.
Should a product be labelled as genetically
modified if it contains an ingredient
that has been genetically modified?

Labelling is required in countries
including the 27 member nations of
the European Union, Australia, New
Zealand, Japan, Korea, Brazil and China.

However, since their commercialisation in
1992, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) has rejected labelling of GMO foods in
the USA.

Online resources

1. The necessary “GMO” denialism and scientific consensus, Journal of
Science Communication.

2. Controversial medical and agri-food biotechnology: a cultivation analysis,
Public Understanding of Science

3. Special Eurobarometer - April 2019 “Food safety in the EU”

4. Why Gene Editing Is the Next Food Revolution, National Geographic

5. U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Why Do We Have GMOs? U.S. Food
and Drug Administration U.S. Food and Drug Administration YouTube channel

6. The Science of GMOs, Purdue University

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