WIKIMEDIA, USDAConsumers may soon have access to information indicating if their food products include ingredients that are genetically modified. Last week (July 7) the US Senate voted 63 to 30 in favor of passing a bill to federally mandate the labeling of foods that contain genetically modified organisms (GMOs).
Critics of the bill don’t like key parts of the legislation. There are no penalties for manufacturers who fail to comply with the mandate. And the bill only requires food companies to include a US Department of Agriculture (USDA) symbol indicating the presence of a GMO in the product or a QR code that links smartphone users to ingredient information, rather than explicitly listing the GMO ingredients. According to Science, Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT)—whose state passed a GMO labeling bill that went into effect on July 1—called the bill “a farce of a proposal.”
“It certainly is not perfect, from my perspective,” said Pat Roberts (R-KS), one of the architects of the bill, “but it is the best bill possible under these difficult circumstances we ...
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