GM contamination found in 'health' foods

WITH most of the soya beans produced in the world now coming from Genetically Modified (GM) varieties, and soya such an ubiquitous ingredient in "healthy" foods, it was inevitable that someone would come a cropper.

But few were prepared for findings at the University of Glamorgan in Wales that 10 out of 25 organic or health food products tested positive for traces of GM ingredients, even though eight of the positive samples had been labelled 'GM free' or 'organic'.

Professor Mark Partridge and Professor Denis Murphy, from the biotechnology unit at the University, tested 25 products containing soya, using an EU approved method for detecting traces of GM ingredients.