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Brazil gets it right and outlaws GMO products without labels

By on August 27, 2012
Brazil outlaws GMO products without labeling in a lawsuit with Nestle over GMO soy in a cookie. Brazil says NO to GMO.

 

Brazil orders Nestlé to label GM products

Brazil outlaws GMO products without labeling in a lawsuit with Nestle over GMO soy in a cookie. Brazil says NO to GMO.

A court in Brazil has ordered Nestlé to impose mandatory labelling for all its products in the country highlighting more than 1% genetically modified (GM) ingredients.  For the whole story go here:

http://www.foodnavigator.com/Legislation/Brazil-orders-Nestle-to-label-GM-products

The U.S. can certainly take a lesson from Brazil who just ruled in Court that Nestle had broken the law for failure to post GM soy in a cookie sold in the country.  The company was served notice of a stiff fine and told it must stop doing this.

The Brazilians got it right.  California, Vermont and other states who have GMO issues on the table for the fall, take note.  Lets hear it for Brazil and lets follow suit.

The Brazilians have named several states to be GMO free and do not permit any GMO soy, wheat or other products to be grown there.  Why?  Brazil has a large interest in producing products for the European market which outlaws GMO.

Lets make this an international case.  JUST SAY NO TO GMO.  LIKE THE BRAZILIANS DO.

 

Linda Eckhardt

About Linda Eckhardt

Linda West Eckhardt, is an award winning journalist, food writer, and nutritionist. Her more than 20 cookbooks have garnered prizes including the James Beard prize for the best cookbook for a text she wrote with her daughter, Katherine West DeFoyd, entitled Entertaining 101, Doubleday. Their follow-up book, Stylish One Dish Dinners, Doubleday, was also nominated for a James Beard prize. Their next book, The High Protein Cookbook, Clarkson Potter, remains a best seller after 12 years. That book was designed to accompany low carb diet plans. Her ground-breaking book, Bread in Half The Time, Broadway Books, was named the Best Cookbook in America by the prestigious IACP, The Julia Child award. Her award winning radio work with Jennifer English, for a national show on the Food and Wine radio network, was nominated for a James Beard Prize for a show called, “I Know What You Ate Last Summer.”

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