The USDA committed legal error by exempting “highly processed foods,” such as sugar, from being labeled as “bioengineered,” according to federal appeals court ...

(Beyond Pesticides, December 22, 2025) After a U.S. Court of Appeals Court decision in October that upheld the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) “bioengineered” food label language, Beyond ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Consumer groups like Just Label It have been demanding GMO labeling for years, even though there is no clear reason to do so. Genetically modified foods haven’t been linked to any threats to human ...