The Retail Council of Canada, speaking for Loblaws, Metro
and Sobey’s supermarket chains, says it has confidence in the approvals the
federal government has granted to produce and market genetically-modified
potatoes and apples.
Last year the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and Health
Canada approved the Arctic apple variety, genetically-modified at the federal
government’s Summerland research station in British Columbia.
Slices cut from these apples do not turn brown.
The same is true for the Innate potato variety developed by
the Simplot company in Idaho and approved this week by the Canadian Food
Inspection Agency and Health Canada.
Canadian Press asked the three chains if they will market
the new varieties and they referred the question to the Retail Council of
Canada to speak for them.
