ZAGREB, Feb 21 (Hina) - The Croatian Peasant Party (HSS) has called on competent ministries and other state-run bodies to immediately tackle the problems of genetically modified organisms and food products that contain GMOs.
ZAGREB, Feb 21 (Hina) - The Croatian Peasant Party (HSS) has called on
competent ministries and other state-run bodies to immediately tackle
the problems of genetically modified organisms and food products that
contain GMOs.#L#
The HSS urges the Health Ministry and public health institutes, that
are in charge of health and sanitation inspection, to check all food
products on the market, especially those imported from other
countries.
HSS representatives, who held a news conference on Saturday, said they
insisted on immediate and consistent enforcement of relevant laws,
including the law on consumers' protection, the food law, and the
environmental protection law in order that consumers could know what
thy buy and what they eat.
This opposition party calls on citizens to boycott food items which
may contain GMOs.
It also urges the Agriculture Ministry to establish a Food Agency.
The HSS warned that despite the existing legislation in this field,
some food products with GMOs appeared in shops in Croatia, although
nobody previously asked to be allowed to sell such products. Besides,
there was no clear information on labels on products that they
contained GMOs.
The HSS said it had been for years the proponent of promoting Croatian
food production as GMO-free production and of proclaiming Croatia as a
GMO-free country so that it could, together with Austria, Slovenia and
Italy, make up a GMO-free zone of Alpe-Adria.
(Hina) ms