The FINANCIAL — The Economy Ministry is concerned over possible deficit of foodstuffs in the retail market due to the Verkhovna Rada laws, which introduce obligatory marking of goods with information about presence or absence of genetically modified organisms in them, the press service of the ministry said.
According to Economy Minister Bohdan Danylyshyn, the traders have started rejecting domestic and imported goods, whose packages does not bear information about GMO contents.
The ministry has reported that in compliance with current legislation, such marking should be proved with laboratory tests.
At the same time, the cost of GMO test per product is UAH 600-800.
Danylyshyn said that such situation may entail the deficit of foodstuffs in the retail networks, considerable losses of entities, including producers and importers of foodstuffs.
The minister said that the following products cannot contain GMO: salt, drinking and mineral water, foodstuffs not containing proteins.
As Ukrainian News earlier reported, on January 27, the Economy Ministry called on the Cabinet of Ministers to offer the Verkhovna Rada to cancel the "No GMO" marking for products not containing GMO.
On December 29, 2009, Viktor Yuschenko approved the Verkhovna Rada law on the introduction of obligatory marking of products with information about the genetically modified organisms contents.
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