"However, Werran believes that eventually there will be an extension to the
regulations to include food".

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Food manufacturers face extra costs and the potential risk of GMOs entering
the food chain as new GMO rules for imported feed come into force on Friday,
warns Cert ID Europe.
The new European Commission regulation aims to harmonise rules for the
control of imports of feed materials from countries such as North and South
America, which may contain traces of genetically modified organisms
(GMO<http://www.foodnavigator.com/content/search?SearchText=GMO&FromNews>s)
not covered by EU authorisations.

It sets out a ‘technical zero’ of 0.1 per cent for unauthorised GM presence
in imported feed, while the ‘zero tolerance’ level for food still applies.

However, Richard Werran, managing director of the non-GMO
certification<http://www.foodnavigator.com/content/search?SearchText=certification&FromNews>
body,
Cert ID Europe, said that food and feed are so interlinked that the new
rules could pose a risk to ingredients companies and manufacturers.

He told FoodNavigator.com: *“Everybody in the food business knows that food
and feed chains are not separated or segregated, they overlap.*

*“It is not unusual for a food ingredients manufacturer to source feed grade
raw materials to produce food additives and ingredients.”*

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