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GMO labeling compromise reached
A bipartisan agreement on a national GMO labeling standard has been reached. Senators Pat Roberts and Debbie Stabenow, leaders of the Senate Agriculture Committee, have been working to come up with a compromise that could garner enough votes in the Senate to pass before July first. The House GMO labeling bill passed last year that called for a voluntary GMO labeling approach would have to be dealt with and the House went on recess today.
Ranking member Stabenow says the agreement “would establish a national, mandatory system of disclosure for food that contains GMO ingredients” and closes “glaring loopholes under the Vermont law which would have allowed tens of thousands of processed food products, like frozen dinners or entrees that contain meat and GMO ingredients, to go unlabeled.”
Vermont’s state GMO labeling law is set to go into effect in eight days – and if there’s no national standard, it would essentially be the law of the land.
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