Reuters | December 21, 1999
TOKYO - Nisshin Flour Milling Co Ltd, Japan's largest flour miller, said yesterday it will stop using ingredients produced from genetically modified (GM) corn and soybeans in its flour products for home use by the end of next February.
The company plans to use wheat starch as an alternative for corn starch and replace soybean protein with wheat protein due to consumer concerns about the safety of bioengineered food products, a company spokesman said.
"We have decided to use wheat-based ingredients because we found it difficult to secure a sufficient volume of ingredients made from non-GM corn and soybeans," he said.
The company uses a total of 2,000 tonnes of corn starch, soybean protein and soy powders annually in its flour products for home use, the spokesman said. Nisshin is also talking to its corporate clients about the possible elimination of GM ingredients from its business-use flour products, he said.
