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Last edited 1 January 1970 at 1:00am
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Where has the Garden Furniture Guide gone?

Last edited 16 April 2007 at 11:02am

B&Q is one of the retailers that has improved its garden furniture policies

Since its launch in 2004, the Garden Furniture Guide has been extremely successful. We've seen many retailers working hard to improve their policies and removing furniture that has been made as a result of ancient forest destruction.

Article tagged as: consumer guides, forests, garden furniture, illegal timber

Where has the GM Shoppers' Guide gone?

Last edited 16 January 2007 at 5:28pm

Iceland were one of the first supermarkets to remove GM ingredients from their own-brand products

The Guide was produced in 2003 as part of our campaign to remove GM ingredients from our food, allowing shoppers to see which products were GM-free and which ones weren't.

It was an enormous success and proved extremely popular. Covering a wide range of foods, including top brands and own-brands, products were colour coded to show whether your shopping trolley was free of GM ingredients or not.

As part of a massive consumer backlash against GM food, most supermarkets and food manufacturers stopped using GM ingredients in their food. In addition, subsequent EU legislation means that all products containing GM material need to be clearly labelled, which has made our Guide pretty much defunct.

Article tagged as: agriculture, consumer guides, GM, GM food, GM milk, supermarkets

Greenpeace launches guide to avoiding GM,

Last edited 16 October 2000 at 8:00am
16 October, 2000
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Greenpeace today launched a new online consumer guide to help shoppers find out whether the foods they are buying really are non-GM. The guide covers a wide range of food, including top brands as well as supermarket own brands. It highlights whether companies have a policy of avoiding derivatives of GM crops, such as GM soya oil, and whether their dairy and meat products come from animals fed on genetically modified crops.

The guide is launched as new evidence raised questions about the advisability of feeding animals with GM crops. Recent studies for the Advisory Committee on Animal Feedstuffs (ACAF) found that, contrary to their expectations, DNA from plants survives feed processing and shows up in animal feed. Scientists on the Committee 'expressed surprise' and called for more studies to follow up the findings.

Article tagged as: consumer guides, GM, GM food, press releases

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