Countries block shipments as GM contamination on the rise

Contamination of traded food and feed with genetically modified crops is on the rise as production increases around the world, the UN’s Food & Agriculture Organisation reported.

Survey results from 75 countries noted 198 incidents of “low levels” of GM crops mixed with non-GM crops between 2002 and 2012, the Rome-based UN agency wrote in an online report.

The number of cases jumped between 2009 and 2012, with 138 of the findings reported in that period.