Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 9 June 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals

2:00 pm

Mr. Gerry Lohan:

I agree absolutely, but the reality is that if products contain GM at a level greater than 0.9%, they must be labelled as GM. That is the law as it stands. If it has more than 0.9% it must be labelled as a GM product. Let us consider all the imports at the feed end, which I am involved in.

We have always required that they state whether it is GM or non-GM in their import notification form. The vast majority of the imports we get from North or South America are GM and are labelled accordingly.

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