No GM promise cuts no ice with dairy companies

Greenpeace China urged companies that have yet to promise not to use genetically modified (GM) ingredients to change their attitudes and address consumers' concerns, after it publicized almost 200 brands that failed to make the promise on Thursday.

Greenpeace quoted a survey conducted by China Xiaokang, a national magazine, in April, which showed that nearly two thirds of respondents prefer to purchase non-GM food.

"The long-term impact of genetically modified food on people's health is still unknown. Lab tests on mice have shown negative effects on their health, it is too risky to run those tests on ourselves," Wang Weikang, the food and agriculture campaigner with Greenpeace, told METRO.