UK's largest poultry producer goes non-GM
UK's largest poultry producer goes non-GM
Press
Release from Grampian Country foods –
FEBRUARY 2nd 2001
Grampian Country Food Group announced today
that it is to begin
manufacturing all of its poultry and
pig feed with non-GM soya by
June 2001.
This decision
has been taken in the light of requests by several of
our
retail customers to remove GM soya from our animal
feeds.
Commenting on this announcement Alban Denton,
Grampain's
Feeds
Division Managing Director said "We
have been in negotiations with
our
supply base for
some time to source the volume of non-GM soya
we
require for our five feed mills. With the support
of our retail
partners we are now in a position to offer
a non-GM poultry and pig
feed with the guarnatee that it
has been sourced from a hard ip
scheme. Consumers will
have the confidence that the livestock fed
by
Grampian will consume a non-GM diet."
By making
this decision Grampian Country Food Group is the first
major
UK animal feed manufaturer to produce non-GM animal
feed in all its
mills in response to both our consumers
and retailer requests.
Where feed is sourced from third
party supplies Grampian will
co-operate closely with
these farmers and feed compounders to assist
them in
sourcing non-GM soya to the same exacting
standards.
Information : Alisdair Cox, Group Corporate
Marketing Manager,
Grampian Country Foods. Tel 01224
696113
Supplemetary Notes
* Grampian Country Food Group
produces 3.8 million chickens, 24,500
pigs a week. To
support these activities the Feed Milling
Division
produces 20,000 tonnes of compound poultry and
pig feed per week.
* Hard IP Non-GM soya : Grampian
Country Food Group have procedures in
place throughout
the supply chain to form a rigorous quality
assurance
scheme, ensuring identity preservation. These
detailed
procedures are backed up with PCR tests, any
positive results would
lead to rejection from Grampian's
supply chain. The whole process is
independently
validated by an accredited auditing company.
ENDS