Natural Products Association allows GMOs in its Certified Natural Products

Natural Products Association allows GMOs in its Certified Natural Products


(NaturalNews) The Organic Consumers Association (OCA) has launched a national alert
on behalf of consumers asking the Natural Products Association (NPA) to
amend its certification process for its NPA Natural Seal to exclude any
and all genetically modified ingredients.

"The NPA advertises
itself as working on behalf of consumers who want to purchase products
that they believe are safe and authentically natural," said Ronnie
Cummins, Executive Director of the OCA. "Yet nowhere in its cosmetics
and personal care products certification process does the NPA screen for
genetically modified ingredients, and nowhere on these products is
there a label that says 'may contain genetically modified ingredients'.
This is an outright act of consumer fraud."

On its website, the
NPA states: "The NPA Natural Standard is based on natural ingredients,
safety, responsibility and sustainability." The website further states:
"A product labeled 'natural' should be made up of only, or at least
almost only, natural ingredients and be manufactured with appropriate
processes to maintain ingredient purity."

The NPA website provides a list http://www.npainfo.org
of ingredients approved under the personal care products NPA Natural
Seal certification process. Nowhere on that list is there any indication
that the NPA differentiates between GMO and non-GMO ingredients.

"The
NPA profits off of retailers, whom it charges for this certification
process," Cummins said. Worse yet, the NPA deceives consumers by leading
them to believe that the products they buy, stamped with the NPA
Natural Seal, are truly natural. There is nothing natural about GMOs."

The
NPA recently came out publicly against Prop 37, the California Right to
Know Genetically Engineered Food Act, despite claiming that it supports
the consumer's right to know. Some of the NPA's members' parent
companies, including DuPont, BASF, Bayer, have contributed millions to
the NO on 37 campaign.

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