HONG KONG - Greenpeace activists in Hong Kong chained themselves on Monday to the gates of a factory owned by food manufacturing giant Nestle to protest against the use of genetically engineered ingredients in its products.
Protesters formed a human chain to block the entrance to the Nestle factory in the New Territories.
Police were on the scene but did not move the protesters.
"The aim is so that none of their products would hit the market all day today," Greenpeace spokeswoman Luisa Tam told Reuters over the phone.
Two activists in white lab coats held up a yellow banner that read "No more lies, no more GE food".
Greenpeace said Nestle had not followed through on a pledge to the group to phase out genetically-engineered ingredients contained in fresh soya milk and a beancurd dessert.
"In tests we did ourselves, we still found traces of GE-ingredients," said Tam.
Nestle had no immediate comment.
At the back of the building, two protesters chained themselves to a van parked by the gate while a third man placed a bicycle lock around his neck and attached it to a lamp post.
The group said it would block the plant for at least a day and would decide later on Monday if it would take further action.
Hong Kong has no specific regulations concerning genetically-modified food but is considering the introduction of a labeling system for such products.
File courtesy of Norfolk Genetic Information Network (ngin), http://www.ngin.org.uk
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