USDA releases GMO food labeling proposal—suggests using 'bioengineered' instead of...
Story Date: 5/7/2018

 

Source: GENETIC LITERACY PROJECT, 5/4/18

USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service has issued a proposed rule to implement the landmark legislation requiring some form of disclosure of biotech ingredients on food packaging. USDA’s proposal maintains the bioengineered food definition set by the 2016 law: A food “that contains genetic material that has been modified” and “for which the modification could not otherwise be obtained through conventional breeding or found in nature.”

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