Want to be sure it's GM-free? Buy food in Moscow (Reuters)

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Published 25 June, 2007, 22:55

Moscow next week introduces a city-wide label to identify GM-free foods, a move ecologists hail as ground-breaking but which foreign producers say is complex and costly.

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