28 October 2020
FSANZ considering food from GM cotton
FSANZ has called for public comment on a submission by Bayer CropScience to approve foods derived from genetically modified cotton, mostly in the form of oil and linters.
The cotton line, GHB119, is protected against feeding damage by caterpillars by a modified gene from Bacillus thuringiensis, a soil bacterium, and is also tolerant to herbicide. Both the new genes have been previously assessed by FSANZ as safe, in other GM products.
Under FSANZ regulations, any final food containing the genetically modified DNA would need to be labelled as such.
The cotton itself would be grown in major cotton-producing countries, including Australia.
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Makes me wonder what kind of food they have in mind although I guess they just mean oil for deepfrying. If they want to include it in ‘vegetable oil’ the labelling had better mention it. Being duped into chowing down on the by-products of GM cotton is just another reason to I want to secede from ‘society’.
Despite the most learned submissions expressing concerns, FSANZ has approved every GM application that has come to it. If you object to the approval of this GM crop, drop them a quick note to submissions@foodstandards.gov.au but use your time more profitably by writing a letter to the Health Minister (nicola.roxon.mp@aph.gov.au) or the Health Minister’s Parliamentary Secretary (mark.butler.mp@aph.gov.au – Minister for FSANZ), to your local federal member, to newspapers, and say that you have no confidence in the FSANZ GM assessments.
It is hard to keep up with all the insidious ways the government is trying to poison our food supply. This is one of those attempts. Whenever labeling of such `food` is not allowed, alarm bells ring in my head that we are becoming guinea pigs for some questionable food that nobody, especially not multinational corporations, want to take responsibility for.