Even when firms such as Unilever manage to find a source of, say, non-modified soya to put in their products, it tends to get contaminated with genetically modified stuff since there is so much of it about.

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He points to logistics companies, major retailers and mobile telecommunications as sources of innovation in non-financial services, and to genetically modified seeds as the most prominent example in agriculture.

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Systems are being developed in prototype form that will facilitate the safe adoption of road trains on un-modified public highways with full interaction with non-platoon vehicles.

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The report, The Use of Genetically Modified Animals, did acknowledge the potential risk from GM animals escaping into the environment and breeding with non-GM animals.

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