Reports from Japan suggest officials are weighing up imposing stricter rules for the mandatory labelling of food items containing genetically modified foods.

TheRicebowl.Asia’s Take: The Japanese government should go the whole nine yards when imposing rules as certain leeway may be taken advantage by food manufacturers. They ought to understand that GMO foodstuffs has unpredictable, hard-to-detect side effects, including allergies, toxins, new diseases, and nutritional problems.

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