VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Sept. 14, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- GLG Life Tech Corporation (Nasdaq:GLGL) (TSX:GLG) (“GLG” or the “Company”), the vertically-integrated leader in the agricultural and commercial development of high quality stevia, announces the United States Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) has issued a Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) Letter of No Objection (Filing No. GRN000329) for GLG’s highest purity stevia extract Rebpure™ RA97. In addition, GLG is currently engaged in a comprehensive program to obtain letters of no objection for several of its other highly purified stevia extracts. The Company has filed notices with the FDA following self affirmation for its innovative new blended sweetening system BlendSure™ as well as its purified stevioside product, PureSTV™.
