The U.S. Department of Agriculture earlier this week finally released long awaited proposed rules for labeling genetically modified foods, or GMOs. But for the last year or so, it seemed like these rules would never come up for public discussion.
Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced last month that the agency would likely miss the July deadline for introducing the final rules mandated under a controversial 2016 law, the National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Act. Nearly a year ago, USDA Senior Policy Analyst Andrea Huberty forecasted this problem. “We’re still on track, but a little behind,” she said.
Many people have pegged the Office of Management and Budget as the roadblock to implementation, but the real reason the rules have taken so long, writes Baylen Linnekin, is because the National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Act is a bad law, and likely unworkable.
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