To (label) BE or Not to (label) BE
Question: When must I label my food as bioengineered?
Answer: The world is at odds over whether bioengineered foods (commonly referred to as genetically modified or GMO) are a blessing or a curse. Even the federal government appears divided on this question. Case in point: FDA doesn’t generally require food manufacturers to disclose that foods are bioengineered, because the agency generally considers such foods to be safe and materially identical to their conventional counterparts. In fact, FDA has even suggested that it is misleading to label food as not being bioengineered because doing so could cause the consumer to believe that bioengineered foods are inherently bad.
Read Jennifer's full article in Quality Assurance & Food Safety magazine.
