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General Mills Halts GM Ingredients In Cheerios

Foods giant General Mills has said that it has stopped using genetically-modified ingredients in its Cheerios cereal. Spokesman Mike Siemienas said: “We switched from what we were using to non-GMO corn and non-GMO pure sugar cane”.

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