Sugar – whether from sugar beets or sugar cane, or from biotechnology-enhanced or conventionally improved sugar crops – is the same pure and natural sugar that consumers have always enjoyed.

• Regulatory agencies around the world have reviewed Roundup Ready® sugar beets and confirmed that the sugar beets and end-products derived from those sugar beets are the same as the food and feed products derived from today’s conventional sugar beets.
  • U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) consultation on Roundup Ready sugar beets
  • Health Canada
  • European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) Opinion of the Scientific Panel on genetically modified organisms
  • The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Japan (MAFF)
  • Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ)
• Independent scientific analysis conducted by an internationally recognized laboratory showed that the sugar from Roundup Ready sugar beets is identical to the sugar from comparably grown conventional (non-Roundup Ready) sugar beets.

Biotechnology crops have improved the world’s food supply for more than a decade. In fact, ingredients from biotechnology-enhanced crops can be found in many of the foods we eat every day.

• Ingredients from biotechnology-enhanced canola, corn, cotton and soybeans are routinely used in food product categories such as baked goods, cereal, confection and dairy, where sugar is another ingredient.
• Major food and beverage manufacturers that buy sugar also buy ingredients derived from other crops improved through biotechnology.
• Approximately half of the sweetener used by U.S. food and beverage manufacturers is high-fructose corn syrup, which is derived from biotechnology-enhanced crops.

Leading Bakery Snack Shortbread Cookie Ingredients

• • Wheat flour
  • Partially hydrogenated vegetable shortening (soybean, cottonseed, canola)*
  • Sugar
  • Modified food starch (corn)*
  • Corn syrup*
  • Soy flour*
  • Soy Lecithin*

_{*Ingredients derived from crops where biotech traits are a large percentage of the commodity crop.}

Food and Beverage Products from Manufacturers that Buy Sugar as well as Ingredients Derived from Biotech Crops

• • Candy bars
  • Cakes, cookies, pies
  • Bread, bagels, donuts, muffins, sweet rolls
  • Snack crackers, chips
  • Ice cream, sherbet and novelties
  • Yogurt
  • Breakfast cereals
  • Toaster items: pastries, waffles
  • Fruit drinks and juices
  • Soft drinks
  • Condiments: salad dressings, ketchup, bar-b-que sauce, jams, jellies
  • Whipped toppings
  • Confections

Food & Feed Ingredients Derived from Biotech Crops

• Soybeans
  • Oil
  • Lecithin
  • Protein isolate
  • Protein concentrate
  • Flour
  • Meal
• Corn
  • Oil
  • Flour
  • High fructose syrup
  • Gluten Feed
• Canola
  • Oil
  • Meal
• Cotton
  • Oil
  • Meal
  • Whole seed
  • Hulls
  • Linters (a component in salad dressing)