Alliance for
Food Purity
Protecting your health and environment
Alliance for Food Purity (AFFP) is a campaign of ARROW Northwest. ARROW is a voluntary organisation committed to achieving its aims through peaceful and legal means.
Our Work
We work closely with expert scientific advisors to provide information to politicians, decision makers and the public about the scientific evidence which demonstrates the serious and potentially irreversible dangers of new style genetic modification of foods.
We raise funds for legal action and awareness campaigns about the scientific evidence of grave risks to health and the environment from unregulated gene-edited crops and foods.
We expose the potential damage to health and the environment from new laws. These permit the biotech industry to stop risk assessments, safety monitoring and allow them to withhold information about the location of gene-edited crops.
Fighting Frankenfoods Podcast with Nikki Escott
This discussion was recorded in 2022 by Elevation Barn– well before the Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill was passed in the UK in March 2023. The Bill removes the requirement for labelling and safety screening from most gene-edited foods. Many countries around the world are also relaxing regulations on genetic technologies. The podcast explains very real dangers of this and why MPs need to be alerted to the great need for gene-edited foods to undergo safety screening. Supporting scientific papers can be found near the foot of the home page.
Our History
ARROW promotes sustainable communities, waste reduction, permaculture, sustainable management of natural resources, and opposes water fluoridisation (which uses an industrial waste product), economic activity which is damaging to human health, the environment and the climate.
Since 1995
Arrow’s various environmental campaigns have been covered by hundreds of press articles, radio and local TV interviews and supported by thousands of residents, many councillors and MPs.

Local Council investigation and implementation of user-friendly, effective recycling collection schemes have resulted from our campaigns. We have inspired many thousands of people to write to councils and MPs and hundreds to speak at public inquiries.
Climate change exacerbating incinerators and polluting landfill sites have been avoided in Lancashire as a result of our concerted actions with various community organisations.
Working with toxicology specialists, technical waste, legal and planning experts, our environmental action stopped Round O Quarry, Skelmersdale from being used as a municipal waste site. The Planning Inquiry resulted in a change in UK planning case law where public opinion is now a material planning consideration.
Our Aims
Our goal is to prevent the contamination of conventional and organic crops with GMOs.
We are committed to ensuring that regulations on new style genetically modified organisms (GMOs) remain safe, adequate and effective.
Safety checks and regulations on gene-edited crops and foods should be maintained and strengthened.​
We believe that GMOs need to remain labelled and traceable.
This will be achieved through:
- PR and social media campaigns
- Collaborations with other campaign groups
- Legal action
Alliance for Food Purity
is a campaign of ARROW Northwest - a voluntary organisation committed to achieving its aims through peaceful and legal means. Since 1995 our environmental campaigns have been supported by thousands of local people, many councillors and MPs. ARROW promotes waste reduction, sustainable communities, sustainable management of natural resources, and opposes economic activity that is damaging to human health, the environment and the climate. We do not trade. A not-for-profit company limited by guarantee registration no. 3792757 (England and Wales). Registered address: ARROW, Beacon House, Willow Walk, Skelmersdale, Lancs. WN8 6UR. This business centre is used by many other unconnected organisations.