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GMO foods: Labels key for consumers

Caroline Chemutai and her 1 year old Keyler Jelagat, sort some shopping at the new Naivas supermarket in Eldoret yesterday. [Peter Ochieng, Standard]

The US Department of Agriculture defines bioengineered food as food that "contains detectable genetic material that has been modified through certain lab techniques that cannot be created through conventional breeding or found in nature."

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