Mandatory genetically engineered food labels could reduce consumer fears, opposition to...
Story Date: 7/12/2018

 

Source: GENETIC LITERACY PROJECT, 7/10/18


Several years ago, I was decidedly in the camp that thought imposition of mandatory labels would cause people to be more concerned about GMOs because it would signal that something was unsafe about the technology.  ... A few years ago, Marco Costanigro and I put this hypothesis to the test in a paper published by Food Policy, and we found little evidence ... that the label per se neither increased or decreased aversion to GMOs.

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