Food

SPECIAL REPORT: Bioengineered food labeling: ‘They kind of shot in the middle and missed every constituency’

Advocates arguing for greater transparency about the use of GMOs in food scored a minor victory this month after a district court told USDA to re-work the digital disclosure portions of the ...
JD Supra

USDA finalizes updates to List of Bioengineered Foods

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) has issued a final rule updating the List of Bioengineered Foods (the List) under the National Bioengineered Food ...
JD Supra

Are Your Labels Up to Date? Ensuring Compliance With the USDA’s National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard

The Situation: The National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard, promulgated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, went into effect on January 1, 2022. The Result: Food manufacturers, importers, ...
Iowa Public Radio

GMO food labeling has been required in the U.S. for a year. Have consumers noticed?

Much of the labeling winds up on products that contain ingredients made from four genetically modified foods: corn, canola, soybeans and sugarbeets. Genetically modified foods have been on supermarket ...
AOL

Genetically Engineered Foods You May Unknowingly Already Have in Your Diet

Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are living things that have had their genetic code artificially altered by scientists by inserting genetic code from another organism into their DNA. It’s still a ...
Agri-Pulse

Appeals court finds USDA erred with 'bioengineered' labeling requirements

A federal appeals court on Friday found the Agriculture Department improperly excluded highly refined foods such as corn and soybean oil from labeling regulations for “bioengineered” food products. In ...
Supermarket News

Industry Backs Up Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard

The Grocery Manufacturing Association and Food Marketing Institute have joined the conversation about establishing a national mandatory bioengineered-food disclosure standard, which would require food ...
Agri-Pulse

USDA’s decade-long struggle on GMO labeling lands in Trump administration's lap

Nine years ago, lawmakers thought they had settled the issue of GMO labeling. A law passed in the summer of 2016 after months of negotiation shut down state labeling requirements and gave companies a ...
The National Law Review

Proposed Rule Could Make Sugarcane Subject to the Same National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard Burdens as Sugarbeet

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Organic farming versus bioengineered food

As organic farming becomes less and less profitable, GMO based farming becomes a more common sight across the world. GMOs have some easy to see benefits, but the drawbacks are vague and concerning, ...
The National Law Review

USDA-AMS Updates List of Bioengineered Foods

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