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3 days ago · Apr 24, 2013. H.R. 1699 (113th). To amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to require that genetically engineered food and foods that contains genetically engineered ingredients be labeled accordingly. In GovTrack.us, a database of bills in the U.S. Congress.
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3 days ago · A Step Forward for Transparency: New "Product of the USA" Labeling Rules. On March 11, the USDA finalized new requirements for the "Product of the USA" labeling claim. This is a significant victory for transparency and fairness in food labeling. Here's some background on why this change was necessary and long overdue. The Evolution of Grass-Fed ...
3 days ago · About 80% of bagged, bottled, boxed, and canned foods in the U.S. are estimated to contain Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs). Including labels on these foods is a common sense policy that gives consumers a choice about the food they buy, eat, and feed their families.
4 days ago · GMOs in agriculture. Genetically modified (GM) foods were first approved for human consumption in the United States in 1994, and by 2014–15 about 90 percent of the corn, cotton, and soybeans planted in the United States were GM.
5 days ago · Biotech companies employ various techniques to modify plant genetics, including gene splicing and CRISPR-Cas9. Although various food and health authorities consider them safe, GMOs, like genetically modified foods, may not be completely safe, as they are associated with health risks like allergic reactions, antibiotic resistance, and toxicity.
5 days ago · Genetically modified (GM) crops, foods, ingredients, and feeds produced from them have been very much in the news. In the United States, voters have gone to the polls in California and Washington to reject initiatives that would have required mandatory warning labels on foods containing even traces of GM crop-derived materials.
2 days ago · Labeling of GMO products in the marketplace is required in 64 countries. Labeling can be mandatory up to a threshold GM content level (which varies between countries) or voluntary. In Canada and the US labeling of GM food is voluntary, [178] while in Europe all food (including processed food ) or feed which contains greater than 0.9% of ...
