A Label Survey to Identify Ingredients Potentially Containing GM Organisms to Estimate Intake Exposure in Brazil
Public Health Nutrition: 21(14), 2698–2713 doi:10.1017/S1368980018001350 A label survey to identify ingredients potentially containing GM organisms to estimate intake exposure in Brazil Rayza Dal Molin Cortese1,2,*, Suellen Secchi Martinelli1,2,3, Rafaela Karen Fabri1,2, Rossana Pacheco da Costa Proença1,2 and Suzi Barletto Cavalli1,2,3 1Nutrition Postgraduate Program (PPGN), Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Health Sciences Centre, Campus Universitário, Trindade, Florianópolis – SC, 88040-900, Brazil: 2Nutrition in Foodservice Research Centre (NUPPRE), Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Florianópolis, SC, Brazil: 3Department of Nutrition, Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Health Sciences Centre, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil Submitted 11 October 2017: Final revision received 3 March 2018: Accepted 24 April 2018: First published online 4 July 2018 Abstract Objective: To identify ingredients from products and by-products derived from GM crops in packaged food products and to analyse the presence of these ingredients in the foods most commonly consumed by the Brazilian population. Design: Cross-sectional study. Setting: A search of the scientific literature to identify the use of products and by- products derived from GM crops in foods in Brazil and a study of food labels in a supermarket belonging to one of the ten largest supermarket chains in Brazil. Subjects: To identify the ingredients present in packaged food products and their nomenclatures, the labels of all packaged food products available for sale in a supermarket were analysed. Subsequently, the presence of potential GM ingredients in the foods most commonly consumed by the Brazilian population was analysed. Results: A total of twenty-eight GM crops’ by-products with applications in the food industry (from soyabeans, corn, cotton and a yeast) were identified.
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