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GM Labeling
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Food Safety News
Vermont Leading the U.S. on GMO Labeling
Since we have great respect for the high standards of reporting generally found in Food Safety News, we were surprised by a number of uninformed statements in your May 3…
Food Safety News
Will Vermont’s GMO Labeling Law Survive Legal Challenge?
(This article was published May 5, 2014, on Lauren Handel's law firm site and is posted here with permission.) Vermont’s GMO labeling bill is expected to be challenged in the courts…
Food Safety News
Vermont Will Triumph Against Court Challenges to New Labeling Legislation
In a May 3 column, Food Safety News editor Dan Flynn wrote a rather scathing editorial about Vermont's new GMO labeling law. Among the criticisms, he asked a question: "If…
Food Safety News
Letter From the Editor: A Mess in Vermont
By Dan Flynn
The organic industry’s national campaign to label GMO foods is not a food safety story, but we cover it because what’s on the food label impacts food safety. If we…
Food Safety News
Vermont Legislature Approves GMO Labeling Bill
By News Desk
With the opportunity to make a little history on the line, the Vermont House of Representatives decided not to quibble about its original GMO labeling bill. Instead of asking for…
Food Safety News
Vermont Senate Approves GMO Labeling Bill, Sends It Back to House for Final Vote
Members of the Vermont Senate voted 28-2 on Wednesday for a bill that, if the Vermont House of Representatives concurs with the Senate's changes, would make it the first state…
Food Liability Law
New Bipartisan Bill Introduced Regarding GMO Labeling
Last week U.S. Representatives Mike Pompeo (R-KS) and G.K. Butterfield (D-NC) introduced a bipartisan bill that would amend the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act with respect to foods produced…
Food Safety News
GE Labeling Resurrected in California, Petition For Ballot Measure Circulating in Colorado
By Dan Flynn
California’s 2012 food-labeling ballot measure, rejected by state voters, makes a return from the grave tomorrow with a public hearing in Sacramento. And another state initiative is in the offing…
Food, Drug & Agriculture
California Legislation May Smooth Over National GMO Debate
The debate over genetically modified foods refuses to fade as a patchwork of state and local laws and lawsuits pop up. [caption id="attachment_506034" align="alignright" width="383"] Credit - traviscrawford[/caption] California is…
Food Safety News
Kroger, Safeway Will Nix GMO Salmon Regardless of FDA Decision
By News Desk
Kroger and Safeway, the largest retail grocery companies in the U.S., have reportedly agreed not to sell genetically modified salmon. The decision was released Monday by a coalition of food…