The Safe and Accurate Food Labelling act as passed by the House Committee on Agriculture this Tuesday gained support from industry trade associations.
The act has lead to defining a national standard clarifying criteria and definitions that will help streamline items produced by genetic engineering.
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In a letter by Leslie Sarasin, president and CEO of Food Marketing Institute, and Peter J. Larkin, president and CEO of the National Grocers Association it was stated that a federal standard would supersede actions by any and all other jurisdictions, thereby avoiding a 50-state system of different and conflicting GMO labelling laws.
Larkin, in a separate statement later also said that independent supermarket owners interact daily with shoppers and share a bond of trust with consumers and would like to provide consumers with clear and consistent information on the products they’re consuming.
