The deep concerns about the safety of genetically modified food in Europe are
not shared by Americans, an opinion poll released last week suggests.
Commissioned by the Food Information Council, a charity sponsored by the US food
industry, the poll showed that more than two-thirds of the 1002 respondents
would buy produce 鈥渆nhanced through biotechnology鈥�. But it seems most Americans
don鈥檛 realise that some of the food they are eating comes from GM crops.
Although 73 per cent had 鈥渉eard something鈥� about biotechnology, only 40 per cent
realised that GM food was on sale in supermarkets.
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