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8. 8. 2019

4 min

In the mid-1990s there was a big, new controversy that came in, wasn’t there, about genetically modified foods: foodstuffs containing genetically altered plant or animal material. It wasn’t long before an abbreviation came along to summarise all these: genetically modified – G.M. or "genetic modification". Now that’s a pretty technical abbreviation; you might not expect to encounter it very often, but actually, you do. Because it was controversial at the time and people didn’t know whether to put this stuff into their foods or not (and it still is controversial), you began to see it on signs – especially after 1996, when the food labelling regulations came in, and they applied in Britain in, 1999 I think it was – and from that point on, people had to say, if you were a restaurant owner or a café owner, you had to say whether your foods had G.M. in them or not – and so you walk into a restaurant these days, and you might well see a sign on the wall saying “no G.M. foods here” or "the following foodstuffs have G.M. products inside". gm - geneticky modifikované/genetická modifikace altered - pozměněný it wasn’t long before - netrvalo dlouho (a objevila se zkratka) abbreviation - zkratka to come along - objevit se food labelling regulations - nařízení, že geneticky modifikované potraviny musí být označeny following foodstuffs have G.M. - následující jídla obsahují GM potraviny products inside