OIA Ltd released a statement to the media saying that "Organic food producers are devastated that Australia and New Zealand are sleepwalking towards deregulation of food labelling laws".
Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) to water down the definitions in the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code for ‘food produced using gene technology’ and ‘gene technology’.
The right of Australian consumers to choose will be disempowered and organic producers will lose access to markets.
“The organic industry rejects the FSANZ proposal to exclude a number of genetic modifications on food from mandatory labelling”, says Peter Hislop Speers, Chair of Organic Industries of Australia Ltd.
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