{"id":5617,"date":"2016-03-11T15:10:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-11T20:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-warns-against-dangerous-anti-gmo-labeling-bill-in-senate-and-highlights-legislation-to-give-consumers-transparency\/"},"modified":"2023-07-24T11:09:43","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T15:09:43","slug":"merkley-warns-against-dangerous-anti-gmo-labeling-bill-in-senate-and-highlights-legislation-to-give-consumers-transparency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/merkley-warns-against-dangerous-anti-gmo-labeling-bill-in-senate-and-highlights-legislation-to-give-consumers-transparency\/","title":{"rendered":"Merkley advierte contra el peligroso proyecto de ley de etiquetado anti-OGM en el Senado y destaca la legislaci\u00f3n para dar transparencia a los consumidores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><b>Portland, Oreg\u00f3n<\/b> \u2014 Hoy, el Senador de Oreg\u00f3n Jeff Merkley visit\u00f3 Green Zebra Grocery en el norte de Portland para discutir un proyecto de ley, com\u00fanmente conocido como la Ley DARK, o Negar a los estadounidenses el derecho a saber, que podr\u00eda estar en el Senado la pr\u00f3xima semana y que prohibir\u00eda permanentemente cualquier exija el etiquetado de ingredientes modificados gen\u00e9ticamente en los alimentos.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Merkley tambi\u00e9n destac\u00f3 la legislaci\u00f3n que present\u00f3 la semana pasada que crea un compromiso con la Ley DARK que garantiza que los consumidores puedan encontrar etiquetas de ingredientes OGM en los envases de alimentos y garantiza que los productores de alimentos no est\u00e9n sujetos a requisitos de etiquetado confusos o contradictorios en diferentes lugares.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cTodo estadounidense que crea en la elecci\u00f3n del consumidor deber\u00eda estar alarmado por este esfuerzo apresurado por anular el derecho de los consumidores a saber qu\u00e9 hay en los alimentos que compran y alimentan a sus familias\u201d, dijo Merkley. \u201cEs por eso que he trabajado en estrecha colaboraci\u00f3n durante los \u00faltimos meses con los productores de alimentos y los defensores del etiquetado para encontrar un punto medio que proteja el derecho de los consumidores a saber, al mismo tiempo que garantiza que los productores de alimentos no se vean afectados por requisitos de etiquetado injustos o contradictorios\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">El <i>Ley de uniformidad y etiquetado de alimentos biotecnol\u00f3gicos <\/i>permitir\u00eda a los consumidores estadounidenses ver si un alimento ha sido preparado con ingredientes GM, al tiempo que ofrece a los fabricantes de alimentos varias opciones para incluir esta informaci\u00f3n en la lista de ingredientes o cerca de ella. Este marco satisface las necesidades de los consumidores, la gran mayor\u00eda de los cuales apoya el etiquetado seg\u00fan las encuestas, y de los productores, a quienes les preocupa que un mosaico de leyes estatales de etiquetado sea costoso, dif\u00edcil de cumplir y confuso para los consumidores. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Espec\u00edficamente, el <i>Ley de Uniformidad de Etiquetado de Alimentos de Biotecnolog\u00eda<\/i> enmendar\u00eda la Ley de Alimentos, Medicamentos y Cosm\u00e9ticos para exigir a los fabricantes que divulguen la presencia de ingredientes GM en el Panel de Informaci\u00f3n Nutricional de una de cuatro maneras:&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Los fabricantes pueden usar un par\u00e9ntesis despu\u00e9s del ingrediente correspondiente para indicar que este ingrediente est\u00e1 &quot;modificado gen\u00e9ticamente&quot;.<\/li>\n<li>Los fabricantes pueden identificar los ingredientes GM con un asterisco y brindar una explicaci\u00f3n al final de la lista de ingredientes.<\/li>\n<li>Los fabricantes pueden simplemente aplicar una declaraci\u00f3n general al final de la lista de ingredientes que indique que el producto fue &quot;producido con ingenier\u00eda gen\u00e9tica&quot;.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li>La FDA tendr\u00eda la autoridad para desarrollar un s\u00edmbolo, en consulta con los fabricantes de alimentos, que revelar\u00eda clara y visiblemente la presencia de ingredientes GM en el empaque.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p class=\"p2\">Ninguna de estas opciones requerir\u00eda divulgaciones en el panel frontal o declaraciones de &quot;advertencia&quot; con la intenci\u00f3n de menospreciar los ingredientes GM.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Adem\u00e1s de brindar opciones de divulgaci\u00f3n concretas, el proyecto de ley de etiquetado de OGM de hoy tambi\u00e9n brindar\u00eda certeza regulatoria a los fabricantes nacionales de alimentos. Esta propuesta legislativa representa un est\u00e1ndar federal uniforme de etiquetado de GM con suficiente flexibilidad para adaptarse a las operaciones de fabricaci\u00f3n de varios tama\u00f1os y mercados, al mismo tiempo que brinda a los fabricantes nacionales cumplimiento con el est\u00e1ndar federal puerto seguro del mosaico potencial de las leyes estatales.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">A trav\u00e9s de esta propuesta, los consumidores interesados tienen la capacidad de encontrar informaci\u00f3n clara sobre los ingredientes GM escritos directamente en la etiqueta del producto cuando toman decisiones de compra de alimentos, y los productores de alimentos tienen certeza regulatoria en el cumplimiento de un solo est\u00e1ndar de etiquetado de OGM.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">La legislaci\u00f3n cuenta con el respaldo de Amy&#039;s Kitchen, Ben and Jerry&#039;s, Campbell&#039;s Soup Company, Consumers Union, Just Label It, National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition, Nature&#039;s Path y Stonyfield Organic.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cLa legislaci\u00f3n refleja el apoyo de Campbell a las normas nacionales obligatorias para el etiquetado de alimentos elaborados con OGM\u201d, dijo Kelly D. Johnston, vicepresidente de Asuntos Gubernamentales de Campbell Soup Company. \u201cAplaudimos al senador Jeff Merkley y sus colegas por responder al deseo de los consumidores de obtener la informaci\u00f3n que buscan de manera consistente y transparente\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cTodo el que come tiene derecho a saber d\u00f3nde y c\u00f3mo se cultivaron sus alimentos. Tenemos derecho a tomar decisiones informadas sobre lo que ponemos en nuestros cuerpos\u201d, dijo Lisa Sedler de Green Zebra Grocery. \u201cEl etiquetado de los alimentos se ha convertido en un tema controvertido impulsado por compa\u00f1\u00edas como Monsanto que no quieren que los consumidores sepan qu\u00e9 contienen nuestros alimentos o espec\u00edficamente c\u00f3mo se cultivaron. En alg\u00fan momento hay que preguntarse qu\u00e9 esconden. Green Zebra apoya plenamente el etiquetado de los OGM\u201d.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cApoyamos los esfuerzos del Senador Merkley para presentar un est\u00e1ndar nacional de etiquetado de sentido com\u00fan para los alimentos que contienen ingredientes modificados gen\u00e9ticamente\u201d, dijo Ivan Maluski, agricultor y director de pol\u00edticas de la organizaci\u00f3n sin fines de lucro Friends of Family Farmers de Oreg\u00f3n. \u201cLos agricultores familiares de Oreg\u00f3n no tienen nada que ocultar y est\u00e1n orgullosos de los alimentos que producimos. Los agricultores de todo el estado apoyan una mayor transparencia en el sistema alimentario y los derechos de los consumidores a tomar las decisiones m\u00e1s informadas sobre los alimentos que consumen y alimentan a sus familias\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cEl p\u00fablico estadounidense tiene derecho a saber qu\u00e9 contienen los alimentos que comen y alimentan a sus hijos\u201d, dijo Julia DeGraw de Food and Water Watch. \u201cThe Dark Act es un proyecto de ley antidemocr\u00e1tico dise\u00f1ado solo para beneficiar a las corporaciones multinacionales como Monsanto, no a los consumidores. Felicitamos al Senador Merkley por defender una soluci\u00f3n que dar\u00eda a todos los estadounidenses la posibilidad de estar informados de lo que contienen sus alimentos a trav\u00e9s del etiquetado obligatorio\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portland, OR &#8212; Today, Oregon&#8217;s Senator Jeff Merkley visited Green Zebra Grocery in North Portland to discuss a bill, commonly referred to as the DARK &ndash; or Denying Americans the Right to Know &ndash; Act, which could be on the Senate floor next week that would permanently ban any state from requiring labeling of genetically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[47],"class_list":["post-5617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases","tag-protecting-consumers-taxpayers-and-the-economy"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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