In many places, governments are performing different action toward GM Food. Since April 2001, Ministry of Health and Welfare in Japan declared that testing of GM Foods is mandatory. Some other places like Brazil “have banned GM crops entirely, and the Brazilian Institute for the Defense of Consumers, in collaboration with Greenpeace, has filed suit to prevent the importation of GM crops.” Also, “Europe now requires mandatory food labeling of GM foods in stores, and the European Commission (EC) has established a 1% threshold for contamination of unmodified foods with GM food product.”However, India’s government does not have any policy on GM foods as yet because there are no GM crops or products available. But India is supportive of transgenic plant research because they feel that the benefits of GM food will help ease the problem of poverty, famine, and over populated.
In United States, there are three government agencies that research and have authority over GM foods. They include: EPA (Environmental Protection Agency), FDA (Food and Drug Administration), and USDA (U.S. Department of Agriculture). The “EPA evaluates GM plants for environmental safety, the USDA evaluates whether the plant is safe to grow, and the FDA evaluates whether the plant is safe to eat.”
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