HC Deb 28 June 1995 vol 262 c695W
Mr. Martyn Jones

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, pursuant to his answer of 13 June,Official Report, column 511, if he will list foods cleared for sale in the United Kingdom produced using genetically modified organisms. [30535]

Mrs. Browning

Ministers have accepted the advice of the Advisory Committee on Novel Foods and Processes and cleared, on food safety grounds, a genetically modified baker's yeast; three chymosin enzymes; used in cheese production, derived from GM micro-organisms; a GM brewer's yeast; tomato paste from a GM tomato; processed food products derived from a GM soya bean; and two oils derived from GM oilseed rapes. To our knowledge, only the chymosins are currently in commercial use.