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Furthermore, the impacts of introducing and implementing the new
EU regulations after 2000 on consumer attitudes and acceptance of agro-
food biotechnology and GM foods have not been analyzed in detail.
However, the still low and gradually decreasing consumer acceptance
in several EU member-states seems to indicate that there was no strong
positive impact in this respect. Altogether Gaskell and colleagues (2006)
come to the conclusion that recent communication activities and “the
introduction of new regulations on the commercialization of GM crops
and the labeling of GM food (EC regulation 2001/18) appears to have
done little to allay public anxieties about agri-food biotechnology in
Europe.” This view is substantiated by the fact that nearly all food pro-
cessing companies, at least in Germany, currently try to avoid the use of
GM products and materials that need to be labeled in food production
and food processing.
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