GE Free NZ made the suggestion after calling out FSANZ for having ‘approved over 87 GE products into the food chain and never turned down an application’, as well as deeming its role fraught with an ‘inherent conflict’ of interest.
“On the one hand [FSANZ’s] role is to protect the health and safety of people by maintaining a safe food supply, [but] at the same time it is tasked with ensuring that [food] trade and commerce is carried on in a profitable manner with the least burden on business,” said the group.
It also claimed that FSANZ had failed to adequately assess the effects, require safety data or mandate the labelling of GM food, thus ‘failing’ in its role to ensure consumer safety.
“It is extremely deceptive that FSANZ [blatantly] disregards scientific evidence of harm when there is no scientific evidence to disprove the research. People’s lives are more important than unregulated risks for easy trade,” GE Free NZ President Claire Bleakley added.
“GE (genetically engineered) foods now contain multiple foreign genes (stacking) inserted to confer resistance to many separate pesticides and FSANZ, with no alternative justification, routinely dismiss, deride, vilify and reject scientific publications showing harm from ingestion of whole GE foods.
"We believe that the trans-Tasman FSANZ is not fit for purpose and has many inconsistencies in setting safety standards for GE foods. This is inherently unjust to the public, and there should be a dedicated Food Standards Regulatory Authority in New Zealand."
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