After years of discussion on how genetically-modified foods should be labeled, in 2018, the USDA announced the National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard. Then, after additional years of planning ...
As of January 1 foods once known as genetically modified organisms (GMO) and genetically engineered foods (GE) will be labeled as bioengineered (BE), per the United States Department of Agriculture’s ...
While farm groups are pleased with USDA’s new disclosure standard for bioengineered foods, others are not. Some public interest and environmental advocacy groups contend the standard is deceptive and ...
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 ...
The USDA's "bioengineered" (GMO) food label is expensive and pointless, facts widely disseminated by the science community. The media has been critical of the new labeling regulations as well, though ...
The National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard – which requires firms to label ‘bioengineered’ foods and beverages - is unlawful and should be nullified and then revised, according to a lawsuit ...
Are you a retailer selling bioengineered foods? If you are, or you may become one, the National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard (NBFDS) must now become part of your vocabulary. In 2016, ...
If the first wave of comments to its proposed rule on GMO labeling is anything to go by, USDA’s agricultural marketing service faces a daunting task as it seeks to nail down its national bioengineered ...
Senator Barbara Boxer of California and Representative Peter DeFazio of Oregon on April 24 introduced companion bills in the Senate and the House of Representatives that would require the labeling of ...