Food

SPECIAL REPORT: Bioengineered food labeling: ‘They kind of shot in the middle and missed every constituency’

Advocates arguing for greater transparency about the use of GMOs in food scored a minor victory this month after a district court told USDA to re-work the digital disclosure portions of the ...
Iowa Public Radio

GMO food labeling has been required in the U.S. for a year. Have consumers noticed?

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 ...
JD Supra

USDA finalizes updates to List of Bioengineered Foods

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) has issued a final rule updating the List of Bioengineered Foods (the List) under the National Bioengineered Food ...
Agri-Pulse

Appeals court finds USDA erred with 'bioengineered' labeling requirements

A federal appeals court on Friday found the Agriculture Department improperly excluded highly refined foods such as corn and soybean oil from labeling regulations for “bioengineered” food products. In ...
JD Supra

Litigation Minute: New Bioengineered Food Disclosure Rules and Litigation Risks

As of 1 January 2022, certain retailers, manufacturers, and importers are required to disclose the presence of bioengineered food and food that contains bioengineered ingredients on products labeled ...
AgWeb

USDA’s FSIS Issues Non-GMO Labeling Guidance for Meat & Poultry

Approvals can now begin on what are termed “negative claims” on labels for meat, poultry and egg products that do not contain bioengineered ingredients or that are derived from livestock that do not ...
AOL

Genetically Engineered Foods You May Unknowingly Already Have in Your Diet

Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are living things that have had their genetic code artificially altered by scientists by inserting genetic code from another organism into their DNA. It’s still a ...
Supermarket News

Industry Backs Up Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard

The Grocery Manufacturing Association and Food Marketing Institute have joined the conversation about establishing a national mandatory bioengineered-food disclosure standard, which would require food ...
The National Law Review

Proposed Rule Could Make Sugarcane Subject to the Same National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard Burdens as Sugarbeet

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Food Processing

Carving Out an Ultraprocessed Foods Definition

While we await a federal definition of UPFs and possibly labeling, a handful of food processors already have found ways to ...
The National Law Review

USDA-AMS Updates List of Bioengineered Foods

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