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Bahrain: Genetically Engineered Food Alert!

Monday, February 5th, 2007 @ 08:15 UTC

by Amira Al Hussaini

Countries:: Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, United Arab Emirates
Topics:: Food

Bahrain-based blogger Haitham Sabbah raises the alarm about the presence of genetically engineered food, which is not labelled, floating about in the markets of Kuwait, Qatar, the UAE and even Bahrain.

2 comments

bob

i like pie…is that geneticaly altered?

# 2009-01-4 at 17:59 pm

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Amira Al Hussaini

I love pie too… so it better not be genetically engineered!

# 2009-01-4 at 19:19 pm

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