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GENETICALLY ENGINEERED FOOD LABELING LAWS Greenland (Denmark)
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Moldova Kyrgyzstan Uzbekistan Azerbaijan Armenia Turkmenistan Tajikistan
Georgia
Canada
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Bhutan Pakistan
Nepal Taiwan India
Oman Mauritania
Mali
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Senegal Guinea-Bissau Belize
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Cuba Jamaica Guatemala El Salvador
Guinea Liberia
Dominican Haiti Republic
Grenada Antigua & Barbuda Trinidad & Tobago Barbados Saint Kitts & Nevis Saint Vincent & the Grenadines Dominica Saint Lucia
Honduras Nicaragua
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Chad
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Burkina Faso Ghana
Cote d'Ivoire
Ethiopia
South Sudan
Central African Republic
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Uganda
Equatorial Congo Guinea Gabon
Laos Thailand
Yemen
Cameroon Togo Benin
Myanmar
Djibouti Nigeria
Japan
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Iran
Kuwait Bahrain Qatar U.A.E. Saudi Arabia
United States of America
South Korea
China
Syria Cyprus Lebanon Iraq Israel Jordan
Tunisia
North Korea
Malaysia
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Brunei
Singapore Nauru
Kenya Rwanda
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DR Congo Tanzania
Guyana Suriname
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Indonesia
Papua New Guinea
Solomon Islands
East Timor
Kiribati
Colombia Angola
Malawi Zambia
Ecuador
Samoa Zimbabwe
Mozambique
Namibia Peru
Brazil
Fiji
Madagascar Mauritius
Botswana Swaziland
Australia
Lesotho
Bolivia
South Africa
Paraguay
New Zealand
Chile
Uruguay
GE-free
Argentina
Official ban on genetically engineered (GE) food imports and cultivation.
Mandatory GE Food Labeling Laws
Detail of Labeling in Europe The European Union (EU) has a single mandatory GE food labeling regulation.
Mandatory labeling of nearly all GE foods and a labeling threshold of 0.9-1% GE content. Threshold refers to content per ingredient in each food item. Mandatory labeling of many GE foods and a labeling threshold higher than 1% or undefined. This includes laws with a threshold of 1% for the entire food item. Mandatory labeling of some GE foods, but with numerous exceptions and no labeling threshold defined; or a vague mandatory GE food labeling law that lacks implemention and enforcement provisions. Enacted mandatory GE food labeling regulation coming into force at a later date.
Center for Food Safety completed the research for this map in September 2012 and will continue to update it as new information becomes available. Last update: March, 2013
Non-EU nations on this inset: - Albania - Bosnia & Herzegovina - Croatia - Macedonia - Montenegro - Norway - Serbia - Switzerland
Finland Norway Sweden Estonia Latvia
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Lithuania
Denmark Ireland
U.K.
Netherlands
Poland
Germany Belgium Lux
Czech Rep. Slovakia
No GE Food Labeling Law
Definitions Genetically engineered (GE) foods, sometimes referred to as genetically modified (GM) foods, are created by artificially inserting genetic material from one or more organisms into the genetic code of another using modern genetic engineering techniques. Labeling threshold is the percentage of GE content in a food item above which the product must be labeled.
France
Original design by AMICI DESIGN/www.amici.com
Switzerland
Hungary
Slovenia Croatia
First printing: July 2003 Second printing: September 2005 Third printing: September 2012 In order to create this map, CFS interpreted current law and expert analysis to determine how best to represent large amounts of information in a straightforward graphic design. Each labeling regime has unique variations that are impossible to fully represent on a map. These laws are dynamic and subject to amendment.
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Italy
Romania Bosnia & Herzegovina
Serbia Bulgaria Montenegro Macedonia Albania
Spain Portugal
Greece
Malta
