European Union - Twenty-Second Report
Here you can browse the report which was ordered by the House of Lords to be printed 30 April 2002.
CONTENTS
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
LIST OF COMMON ACRONYMS
REPORT
The purpose of this Report
Box 1: GM and Biotechnology: basic terminology
Previous Parliamentary consideration of biotechnology
and genetic modification
The Committee's approach: focusing on the
consumer
Approval of GM foods and feed in the European
Union
GM foods, food ingredients and animal feed
Current and proposed GM labelling regulations
Box 2: The Commission's legislative proposals
Box 3: The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
Box 4: Detection methodologies for presence
of GM material
Labelling options
Extending the labelling requirements
Introducing a "GM-free" scheme
Summary of current and proposed GM labelling
requirements
The wider picture
CHAPTER 2: POINTS FROM THE EVIDENCE
Central and Local Government
Consumers and environmental organisations
The food chain
The food supply industry
Food processors and retailers
The biotechnology industry
The United States Government and major US
stakeholders
Other views
CHAPTER 3: THE COMMITTEE'S CONCLUSIONS
Nutritional benefits
Environmental implications
Ethical considerations
Consumer preference
Feasibility of testing and tracing of GM
content
Derived products
What should be labelled?
Terminology
Clarity of information
The moratorium on approvals of GM imports
to the EU
Developing countries
Handling of GM issues within the UK Government
Recommendations
Recommendation to the House
Appendix 1 Membership of Sub-Committee D
Appendix 2 Call for Evidence
Appendix 3 List of Witnesses
ORAL EVIDENCE
Consumers' Association
Oral Evidence 6 February 2002
Food and Drink Federation
Written Evidence
Oral Evidence 13 February 2002
British Retail Consortium
Oral Evidence 13 February 2002
Written Evidence
Friends of the Earth
Written Evidence
Oral Evidence 27 February 2002
United States Embassy, London
Written Evidence
Oral Evidence 27 February 2002
Supplementary Written Evidence
The Right Honourable Michael Meacher MP, Minister for the Environment,
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Written Evidence
Oral Evidence 6 March 2002
Food Standards Agency
Oral Evidence 6 March 2002
WRITTEN EVIDENCE
American Soybean Association
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
British Beer & Pub Association
British Society of Plant Breeders and British Sugar Beet Seed
Producers Association
GeneWatch UK
Genetic Engineering Alliance
The Grain and Feed Trade Association
Greenpeace
Institute of Food Research
Monsanto S.A.
National Consumer Council
National Farmers' Union of England and Wales (NFU)
National Farmers' Union Scotland (NFUS)
Provision Trade Federation
The Reverend Professor Michael Reiss
The Royal Society
Royal Society of Edinburgh
The Scotch Whisky Association
Supply Chain Initiative on Modified Agricultural Crops (SCIMAC)
Sygenta Seeds
United Kingdom Agricultural Supply Trade Association (UKASTA)
University of the West of England, Faculty of Applied Sciences
NOTE: Pages of the Report and Appendices are numbered
in bold type; pages of evidence are numbered in ordinary type.
References in the text of the Report are as follows:
(Q) refers to a question in oral evidence;
(p) refers to a page of the Report or Appendices or to a page
of evidence.
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