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Article: Stores in GM food probe on tortilla chips
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- Evening Mail
- Article date:
- November 6, 2000
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INVESTIGATIONS were under way today at four supermarkets after
tests commissioned by Friends of the Earth detected banned
genetically modified maize in own-brand tortilla chips.
The pressure group took 20 foods from British supermarket shelves
and sent them to a laboratory in Germany to be analysed for types of
GM maize which cannot legally be sold in Europe.
The tests found GA21 maize, manufactured by the biotechnology
giant Monsanto, in three products including Safeway's and Asda's own-
brand tortilla chips, said Friends of the Earth.
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