OIA has lodged a submission to FSANZ on a proposal to change the definitions for gene technology and new breeding techniques.
The FSANZ assessment promotes a false equivalence that new breeding technique (NBT) food is produced with an outcome that might occur using natural selection techniques. That is clearly not the case, and the onus should be on the proponent to prove the safety of every instance of GM manipulation.
Overwhelmingly, overseas markets do not want GM foods, and are worried by the environmental contamination of our organic foods with GM breeds. This move also disempowers Australian consumers!
