GM

During 2003 the Food Standards Agency supported a range of innovative events and activities to independently assess people's views of genetically modified food. Since then, this debate site has been revised to avoid misleading people with out of date information.

If you want to see how this site appeared in 2003, please email webmaster@foodstandards.gsi.gov.uk and you will be sent a copy.

For information on our current work on GM food, please visit food.gov.uk.

The 2003 independent assessment of consumer opinion on the acceptability of GM food and how this related to consumer choice was the Agency's contribution to the Government's public debate on GM. The Board of the Agency considered the results of all these activities at a public meeting in Cardiff in May 2003. You can read the full report here.

You can watch the video-on-demand of three of these activities by clicking on the links below.

In our 2003 debate, some organisations highlighted their concerns about the science of GM not completely being understood and argued that there were significant uncertainties in the safety assessment of GM food. Links to some of their websites can be found under 'Non-Governmental organisations' and 'Professional organisations' in our Other views section, along with other GM-related links.