Canola Oil, Non-GM

Look for non-genetically modified (GM) canola on the label. GM canola, which is tolerant to herbicides, was introduced in the mid 1990s in Canada. In 2003 GM Canola was approved as the first genetically modified food crop to be trial-grown in Australia. In 2008 it was commercially released. Fast-forward to 2010 and 8 per cent of our national canola crop is genetically modified and we still don’t know if we are eating it or not as highly processed foods by law don’t need to be labelled.