We
are currently conducting a fund-raising drive to members like yourself to
sponsor a South African food to be tested for GM Content. Each sample costs
approximately R1500.00 Should you or your organisation wish to sponsor the
testing of a food (eg baby food, maize, soy, cornflakes etc) please contact
us. Please also see the list submitted by
Woolworths of their foods that may contain GMO as of February 2008
In
the meantime, we list the following data
which was compiled by SAFeAGE from the report:
NB:
It
should be noted that "all labelling uses pre-determined thresholds, as
it is not possible to ensure
zero GM in a product once GMOs are present in the production system (Bullock and
Desquibet, 2002).
Positive labelling is used here to indicate that a product contains GM IN
EXCESS OF A
PREDETERMINED THRESHOLD and is labelled as "GM" while negative
labelling is used to indicate that a product is "non-GM" when the GM content is BELOW
A SPECIFIED
TOLERANCE LEVEL."
(Viljoen et al).
MAIZE PRODUCTS
Product
Name
|
Description
|
Producer
|
Labelled
or Unlabelled
|
Claim
|
GM
Content Found
|
|
Amazon Corn Flakes
|
Cereal
|
Woolworths (Nature’s Food)
|
Labelled
* QAI(1)
|
Organic
USA origin
|
YES
|
|
Corn Flakes (1)
|
Cereal
|
Bokomo Foods
|
Unlabelled
|
|
No
|
|
Corn Flakes (2)
|
Cereal
|
Kellogg Company
|
Unlabelled
|
|
No
|
|
Corn Flakes (3)
|
Cereal
|
Woolworths
|
Labelled
|
May be genetically modified
|
NO
|
|
Ace
|
Maize meal
|
Tiger Foods Brands
|
Unlabelled
|
|
YES
|
|
Blue Bird
|
Maize meal
|
Sasko
|
Unlabelled
|
|
YES
|
|
Impala
|
Maize meal
|
Premier Foods
|
Unlabelled
|
|
YES
|
|
Iwisa
|
Maize meal
|
Premier Foods
|
Unlabelled
|
|
YES
|
|
Knorr Pap Mix
|
Maize meal
|
Robertsons
|
Unlabelled
|
|
YES
|
|
Maize Meal
|
Maize meal
|
Woolworths
|
Labelled
|
May be genetically modified
|
YES
|
|
Plaas Pap
|
Maize meal
|
Nola
|
Unlabelled
|
|
YES
|
|
Pride
|
Maize meal
|
Pride Milling
|
Unlabelled
|
|
YES
|
|
Summer Cream
|
Maize meal
|
Premier Foods
|
Unlabelled
|
|
YES
|
|
White Maize Meal
|
Maize meal
|
Earth Products
|
Labelled
|
GMO Free/Organic
Origin: SA
|
YES
|
|
White Mealie Meal
|
Maize meal
|
Nature’s Choice
|
Unlabelled
|
|
YES
|
|
White Star
|
Maize meal
|
Sasko
|
Unlabelled
|
|
YES
|
|
Yellow Mealie Meal
|
Maize meal
|
Nature’s Choice
|
Unlabelled
|
|
YES
|
|
Maizena Corn Flour
|
Maize starch
|
Robertsons
|
Unlabelled
|
|
No
|
|
Sheridan’s Corn Flour
|
Maize starch
|
Retailer Brands
|
Unlabelled
|
|
No
|
|
Corn Thins Original
|
Rice cakes
|
Real Foods
|
Labelled
|
GMO Free
Origin: Australia
|
No
|
|
Plain Rice Cakes
|
Rice cakes
|
Woolworths
|
Unlabelled
|
|
No
|
|
Golden Cloud
|
Self-raising flour
|
Tiger Foods Brands
|
Unlabelled
|
|
No
|
|
Self-Raising Flour
|
Self-raising flour
|
Woolworths
|
Labelled
|
May
be genetically modified |
YES |
|
Snowflake
|
Self-raising flour
|
Premier Foods
|
Unlabelled
|
|
YES
|
|
Old El Paso Taco Kit
|
Taco shells
|
General Mills
|
Unlabelled
|
|
YES
|
|
Baby Corn
|
Vegetable maize
|
Woolworths
|
Unlabelled
|
|
NO
|
|
Organic Baby Corn
|
Vegetable maize
|
Woolworths
|
Labelled
ECOCERT
|
Organic
Origin: Zambia
|
NO
|
|
Sweet Corn
|
Vegetable maize
|
Woolworths
|
Unlabelled
|
|
NO
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
SOY PRODUCTS:
|
Product
Name
|
Description
|
Producer
|
Labelled
or Unlabelled
|
Claim
|
GM
Content Found
|
|
Soya Beans (1)
|
Soy Beans
|
Health Connection Whole Foods
|
Labelled
|
Not Genetically Modified
|
NO
|
|
Soya Beans (2)
|
Soy Beans
|
Nature’s Choice
|
Unlabelled
|
|
YES
|
|
Soya Crisps
|
Soy crisps
|
Woolworths
|
Unlabelled
|
|
YES
|
|
Soya Flour
|
Soy flour
|
Health Connection Whole Foods
|
|