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wise, Mr. Emling said.
"Non-GMO products are in strong
demand by Europe and Asia," said
Jennifer Tesch, marketing/sales director
for SK Food International, Fargo, ND.
A new study from Cornell University analyzed whether Americans
consider genetically engineered food
a health risk or benefit. The mean response supporting biotechnology was
5.6 on a scale of 1 to 10 in 2003, the first
year of the study's surveys. The results
indicated people were evenly divided
in supporting, opposing or having an
undecided attitude toward genetically
engineered food. The mean dipped to
5.2 in 2005, the final year of the multiyear study.

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Genetically engineered crops apparently will stick around awhile. In 2004, US
farmers planted biotech crops on 118
million acres - an 11% increase over
the previous year, according to a study
released last December by the National
Center of Food and Agricultural Policy,
a private nonprofit research organization based in Washington, DC.
The increase of GMO crops has taken
place on a global scale. In 2005, four
new countries and 250,000 more farmers planted biotech crops, according
to a report released in January written
by Clive James, chairman and founder
of the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications,
which has a US office in New York,

ᮡ By definition, organic products such as
bread must have ingredients that are not
genetically modified.
NY. Since 1996, global planted area of
biotech crops has risen from 1.7 million
hectares in six countries to 90 million
hectares in 21 countries in 2005.
As the number of GMO crops grows,
the challenge of keeping them from affecting non-GMO crops becomes more
difficult. Last December, an executive
summary prepared by the US Department of Agriculture's Office of Inspector General, Southwest Region, analyzed USDA's Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service controls over the issuance of genetically engineered organism release permits.
"The rapid growth of agricultural
biotechnology, and its prominent position in the public eye, increases USDA's
responsibility to ensure that regulated
genetically engineered (GE) plants, including their pollen and seeds, do not
persist in the environment," the executive summary said. "However, as the
number of approved applications to
field test new GE plants continues to
rise, we are concerned that the department's efforts to regulate those crops
have not kept pace."

PRESERVING IDENTITY
Several companies use identity preservation (IP) as a way to ensure their
ingredients are non-GMO. Mr. Emling of National Starch said a good

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