Successes

2006

Greenpeace and GeneWatch UK launched the first online register of GE contamination incidents. The searchable website lists all known cases of GE contamination of food, feed, seed and wild plants worldwide.

The fourth edition of the True Food Guide reveals that Campbell Arnott's  has joined other top Australian food companies Heinz, Watties, Unilever and National Foods, in committing to keeping GE ingredients out of their products.

2005

We  convinced Australia's top three poultry companies - Inghams, Bartter Steggels and Baiada to commit to going GE-Free! The poultry industry is the single largest user of GE in the country.

Darrell Lea Chocolates went GE-free, just in time for Easter.

We delivered nearly 400 letters of concern urging Food Standards Australia and New Zealand (FSANZ) to protect Australian shoppers from illegal GE corn. The Bt10 GE corn, which is not approved for human consumption was accidentally sold to US farmers by Syngenta for at least 4 years, and could be in many common food products in Australia.

2004

Monsanto, the largest biotech company in the world, terminates its GE canola breeding program in Australia.

The European Union rejects BayerCropScience's application for the commercial planting of GE canola on environmental grounds.

Greenpeace New Zealand announced the end of its public campaign against McDonald's following the fast food giant's statement that it will seek non-GE feed for its chickens.

Bayer CropScience withdraws its application to grow GE maize commercially in the UK.

2003

Greenpeace launches the second edition of the True Food Guide.

Australia's five canola-growing states impose moratoria on the commercial release of the first proposed GE food crop for 2003.

In China, the world's largest food market, 32 food companies, producing 53 brands agree not to sell GE food.

2002

An independent survey commissioned by Greenpeace found that 92 per cent of all Australians want comprehensive labelling of GE foods (Taylor Nelson Sofres).
 
We launched our  inaugural True Food Guide, which gives food companies a "green, "orange" or "red" status, according to their stance on genetically engineered ingredients, all 500,000 copies were snapped up in two months. The Guide is now in its third edition.

Six companies – Three Threes, Sargents, Murray Goulburn, Sakata Rice Snacks, Spring Gully Pickles and Weis declare their products are free of GE derived ingredients and are moved from the True Food Guide's "red" category to the "green".