The Environment Minister, Mrs. Jónína Bjartmarz, has expressed concern about the lack of labeling of GM food in Iceland, saying that consumers should have the right to know the contents of what they were buying. The Minister recently gave the strongest indication so far that she intends to rectify this soon.

In her address to the Congress of the National Consumers Association on September the 29th, the Minister confirmed that a decision on whether to regulate this ominous gap was imminent.  In a newspaper interview a few days later the minister revoked the Norwegian example to explain that Iceland did not need to wait for a formal ratification by the EEA of the EU regulations on GMOs.

The Joint EEA Committee has not yet agreed to incorporate the 2001 EU GM regulations into the EEA Agreement. 

Currently, neither food or feed containing GMOs is required to be labeled in Iceland, but all other European countries (including Norway and Switzerland) have regulations to control GM labeling.