Food & Agriculture Press Releases

Greenpeace today exposes Parknshop and Wellcome, the biggest supermarket chains in the territory, are selling problem vegetables containing illegal pesticide and excessive pesticide residue. Greenpeace’s sampling and investigation was conducted...

At eight o’clock this morning, more than ten Greenpeace activists blocked the main entrance of the Murray Building with more than fifty Heinz rice cereal products, fifty papayas and a big banner of 3.5 x 2 metres, with a slogan “STOP GE...

Illegal GE rice was found for the first time in Hong Kong food market, Greenpeace China announces today. The product in question is Heinz’s Baby Rice Cereal, previously exposed in the mainland to be contaminated by Bt rice genetically engineered...

In a press conference today, Greenpeace strongly urged the Hong Kong SAR Government to take immediate measures to stop genetically engineered (GE) papaya from spreading and implement strict control to prevent the potential irreversible damage of...

Greenpeace today issued a letter to the Secretary for Health, Welfare and Food Chow Yat-ngok and demanded the government to withdraw the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department’s (AFCD’s) misleading remark on genetically engineered...

Greenpeace has discovered illegal genetically engineered (GE) rice in a Heinz baby cereal product sold in Mainland China, the first time worldwide that illegal GE rice contamination has been detected in baby food.

Greenpeace food safety patrols today helped an organic farmer remove all genetically engineered (GE) papayas growing in his field and prevented further GE contamination by these plants. The seedlings of this GE papaya were distributed by the...