Kraft Foods is the largest food and beverage company headquartered in North America and second largest in the world, marketing many popular brands in more than 155 countries.

AYS and ICCR members are in a multi-year dialogue with Kraft Foods. AYS helped develop financial risk materials such as the 2003 report "Risky Business: Financial Risks that Genetically Engineered Foods Pose to Kraft Inc and Shareholders." This report was done in collaboration with the Public Interest Research Group, one of several consumer advocate organizations contacting the company on this issue.

Recent dialogues with the company have focused on Kraft becoming an industry leader and Kraft has lobbied for such policies as:

• standardized GE sampling methodologies,
• monitoring of health and ecological impacts,
• opposition to "partial approvals" (products allowed for animal feed but not for humans) and,
• opposition to plant made pharmaceutical and industrial products in food crops.

Kraft has also agreed to shareholder requests to:

• increase transparency on its web sites
• provide information on its sourcing,
• provide more diverse points of views and reports on the website.