Unlabelled Tesco pizza contained GM soya.(News)

From: The Birmingham Post (England) | Date: June 4, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

A cheese and tomato pizza bought at a Tesco store was found to contain genetically modified soya but carried no label notifying shoppers of any GM content, it was claimed yesterday.

Independent tests at a German laboratory discovered 4 per cent of the soya used in Tesco's own-brand cheese and tomato ...

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