Genetically modified food chain survey: What are the genetically modified foods around you?

Because Germany violated its promise to allow chicken suppliers to use GM feeds, McDonald's was skeptical. This news once again pushed the GM food that has been in hot debate to the cusp of GM. How many GM foods are in our food chain? Are these genetically modified foods clearly labeled on the packaging as required? When consumers are spending, how do you choose? Southern Metropolis reporters launched an investigation.

1 market visit

Most genetically modified foods are edible oils

When the reporter visited the Guangzhou market recently, he discovered that there are currently foods labeled “GM” in soybean oil, rapeseed oil, and blended oil. Nandu reporter saw at the China Resources Vanguard Supermarket’s edible oil counters that the blended oils of various brands, including Fortunegate, Golden Arowana, and Luhua (peanut blended oil), were used for genetically modified raw materials. However, all businesses are very vague when it comes to labeling transgenes. The reporter saw the words “This product contains genetically modified soybeans” on the two soybean oil packages at Wuhu and Fulinmen. It was written at the bottom of the list of ingredients. Body thickness, size, and color are almost the same as other explanatory writings. Conspicuous.

Compared to the “low profile” labelled “transgenic”, non-transgenic annotations are quite high-profile. In the packaging of many soybean oil and rapeseed oil, customers can see the eye-catching words "non-genetically modified" at a glance. Fook Lament's natural grain blend oil contains genetically modified raw materials. This information is hidden in a pile of text on the back. Its sunflower oil, because it does not contain genetically modified ingredients, is indicated on the front face as "non-genetically modified press." Another noteworthy phenomenon is that the price of genetically modified edible oil is significantly lower than that of non-GM products: a genetically modified product called Jinding first-grade rapeseed oil under the China Grain Store, with a 5L raw material price of only 68.5 yuan. The brand is a Zhongding soybean oil, but also because it is genetically modified products, a price war to fight for consumers, 5 liters price is only 48 yuan.

Instead of genetically modified varieties, COFCO's Fook Lam Mun 1.8-liter sunflower seed oil sold for 31 yuan; Duoli Sunflower Oil 5L was sold at 83.8 yuan; non-genetically modified Jinlongyu corn oil, 1.8-liter price was 31.9 yuan. Yuan, the brand's newly developed rice oil labeling is shown as a non-genetically modified product, and the 5L loading price has already been closer to the brand's other non-genetically modified olive oil blended with the same specifications. The former is priced at 99.9 yuan and the latter is 119.9 yuan. Yuan, the two products are currently donated 900 ml of small packaged non-genetically modified edible oil for promotion. The regional brand Dekang also has rice bran oil labeled as non-genetically modified. The 5L unit sells for 95 yuan.

Judging from market information, whether it is genetically modified or non-transgenic has become a hot phenomenon. There is a person in charge of a large oil company, said that because the public once talked about genetic changes in genetic modification, some companies have launched GM marketing. "Because the same product, if you hit the concept of non-genetically modified, the ex-factory price per ton can be as high as 1,000 yuan. For example, peanuts have no genetically modified products. Many oil companies also marked 'non-genetically modified'."

It is understood that the current international practice is the one-way labeling principle, which means that the labeling of transgenes is required, and the rest is naturally non-transgenic and does not need to be annotated separately.

Industry chain tracking

The by-products of genetically modified raw materials enter the aquaculture industry extensively

From the point of view of supermarket visits, genetically modified foods seem to exist only in a few areas such as edible oil. However, how widely is it involved in the agricultural industry chain? In fact, although China currently does not approve of the number of genetically modified crops that can be imported or can be grown in China, we are unavoidably exposed to genetically modified foods in our lives. “The corn and soybeans imported from the United States are basically genetically modified.” Ma Wenfeng, an agricultural analyst at AIG, provided a series of data to Nandu reporters. In 2013, the import of soybeans was as high as 63 million tons, while the import of corn was more than 3 million tons. Among them, the amount of imports from the United States was as high as 2.96 million tons; there was an unusually significant cost difference between GM maize and domestic corn. “In 2013, the average price of corn imported from the United States was less than US$300/ton, but the average price in Guangdong and other coastal areas was as high as 2,400 yuan/ton.” Ma Wenfeng pointed out that the huge cost difference has caused serious problems in enterprises that use domestic corn for deep processing. Loss. Ma Wenfeng pointed out that taking corn as an example, it can produce corn starch, starch sugar, and oil after deep processing, and corn can be used as feed. After deep processing of soybeans, its products include oil and soybean meal, and soybean meal as feed. "The composition of soybean meal in the feed sometimes exceeds 30%," said Ma Wenfeng. The by-products produced by genetically modified corn, soybeans, and cotton enter the aquaculture industry in the form of feed. "Cattle, sheep, pigs, chickens and other industrial chains will be used." Ma Wenfeng pointed out. At the CCTV Financial Forum organized by CCTV Finance Channel at the end of last year, the new hope of [1.30% fund report] Chairman Liu Yonghao in response to the media's inquiry did not disclose how much the new hope contained genetically modified feed, but how large it was. Frankly, New Hope Group's feed contains genetically modified ingredients.

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