From Keith Alexander
The views of Britain’s Food Standards Agency are becoming legendary (7 December, p 8). The FSA has branded Europe’s plans for tough laws on labelling genetically modified foods a “cheat’s charter”. Its rationale goes like this: products are devoid of any detectable GM material; trading standards would have to rely on paper trails documenting the history of the product; one would have to rely on the honesty of producers in other countries.
I wonder then what the FSA’s views on timber certification would be?
Cirencester, Gloucestershire, UK
