Given the huge acreage devoted to the cultivation of GM crops in these countries and the absence of mechanisms to segregate such crops from non-GE agricultural products, it is safe to assume that contamination of feedstock for various food manufacturing processes in the region is already taking place. Recent food analytical tests done in Thailand and the Philippines would confirm that this in fact is the case.

Greenpeace believes that the adoption of the Biosafety Protocol, which aims to regulate the transboundary movement of GMOs, will protect the region from the onslaught of contaminated imports. As part of its campaign, Greenpeace will be lobbying governments in the region to swiftly ratify the Biosafety Protocol and facilitate its entry into legal force as well as promulgate national policies and mechanisms to require segregation of supplies, regular testing programs - if not a blanket ban on GM food imports.