{"id":5631,"date":"2016-03-02T16:51:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T21:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/senate-dems-offer-rival-bill-on-gmo-food-labels\/"},"modified":"2023-07-24T11:09:44","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T15:09:44","slug":"senate-dems-offer-rival-bill-on-gmo-food-labels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/senate-dems-offer-rival-bill-on-gmo-food-labels\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Dems offer rival bill on GMO food labels"},"content":{"rendered":"

Senate Democrats are pushing a rival bill on labeling for genetically modified foods.<\/p>\n

The Biotechnology Food Labeling and Uniformity Act unveiled Wednesday would require manufacturers to disclose the presence of genetically modified organisms on a product’s Nutrition Fact Panel. Manufacturers, though, would have a choice in how they comply.<\/p>\n

They could choose to put the words “genetically engineered” in parentheses next to a relevant ingredient; identify GM ingredients with an asterisk and provide an explanation for the asterisk at the bottom of the ingredients list; or apply a catch-all statement at the end of the ingredient list stating the product was “produced with genetic engineering” ingredients.<\/p>\n

Sens. <\/span>jeff merkley<\/a><\/span> (Mineral.), <\/span>Patricio Leahy<\/a><\/span> (Vt.), <\/span>Jon Probador<\/a><\/span> (Mont.) and <\/span>Diana Feinstein<\/a><\/span>(Calif.), who offered the bill, called it a common-sense compromise to the fight over requiring mandatory labels for GMO foods. They said it would inform consumers without burdening manufacturers with a patchwork of state regulations.<\/span><\/p>\n

Their legislation comes as the Senate is poised to vote on a Republican bill that would block states from issuing mandatory GMO labeling laws and establish a voluntary federal standard. Supporters of the GOP measure say it’s necessary to provide a patchwork of state-by-state regulations. But critics of the GOP approach want a mandatory federal standard for GMO labels.<\/p>\n

The legislation would also give the Food and Drug Administration the authority to develop a symbol, in consultation with food manufacturers, that would clearly and conspicuously disclose the presence of GMOs on packaging.<\/p>\n

“There is a way to give consumers the information they are asking for without placing unfair or conflicting requirements on food producers,” Merkley said in a statement. “This legislation provides the common-sense pathway forward.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Senate Democrats are pushing a rival bill on labeling for genetically modified foods. The Biotechnology Food Labeling and Uniformity Act unveiled Wednesday would require manufacturers to disclose the presence of genetically modified organisms on a product’s Nutrition Fact Panel. Manufacturers, though, would have a choice in how they comply. They could choose to put the words “genetically engineered” […]<\/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":[26],"tags":[42],"class_list":["post-5631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","tag-agriculture"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nSenate Dems offer rival bill on GMO food labels - Merkley<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/senate-dems-offer-rival-bill-on-gmo-food-labels\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Senate Dems offer rival bill on GMO food labels - Merkley\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Senate Democrats are pushing a rival bill on labeling for genetically modified foods. The Biotechnology Food Labeling and Uniformity Act unveiled Wednesday would require manufacturers to disclose the presence of genetically modified organisms on a product’s Nutrition Fact Panel. Manufacturers, though, would have a choice in how they comply. They could choose to put the words “genetically engineered” […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/senate-dems-offer-rival-bill-on-gmo-food-labels\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Merkley\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-03-02T21:51:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-07-24T15:09:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/senate-dems-offer-rival-bill-on-gmo-food-labels\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/senate-dems-offer-rival-bill-on-gmo-food-labels\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"\",\"@id\":\"\"},\"headline\":\"Senate Dems offer rival bill on GMO food labels\",\"datePublished\":\"2016-03-02T21:51:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-07-24T15:09:44+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/senate-dems-offer-rival-bill-on-gmo-food-labels\/\"},\"wordCount\":309,\"keywords\":[\"Agriculture\"],\"articleSection\":[\"In the News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"es-MX\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/senate-dems-offer-rival-bill-on-gmo-food-labels\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/senate-dems-offer-rival-bill-on-gmo-food-labels\/\",\"name\":\"Senate Dems offer rival bill on GMO food labels - Merkley\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2016-03-02T21:51:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-07-24T15:09:44+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/senate-dems-offer-rival-bill-on-gmo-food-labels\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"es-MX\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/senate-dems-offer-rival-bill-on-gmo-food-labels\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/senate-dems-offer-rival-bill-on-gmo-food-labels\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Senate Dems offer rival bill on GMO food labels\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/\",\"name\":\"Merkley\",\"description\":\"Merkley\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"es-MX\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/author\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Senate Dems offer rival bill on GMO food labels - Merkley","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/senate-dems-offer-rival-bill-on-gmo-food-labels\/","og_locale":"es_MX","og_type":"article","og_title":"Senate Dems offer rival bill on GMO food labels - Merkley","og_description":"Senate Democrats are pushing a rival bill on labeling for genetically modified foods. The Biotechnology Food Labeling and Uniformity Act unveiled Wednesday would require manufacturers to disclose the presence of genetically modified organisms on a product’s Nutrition Fact Panel. Manufacturers, though, would have a choice in how they comply. They could choose to put the words “genetically engineered” […]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/senate-dems-offer-rival-bill-on-gmo-food-labels\/","og_site_name":"Merkley","article_published_time":"2016-03-02T21:51:00+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-07-24T15:09:44+00:00","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/senate-dems-offer-rival-bill-on-gmo-food-labels\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/senate-dems-offer-rival-bill-on-gmo-food-labels\/"},"author":{"name":"","@id":""},"headline":"Senate Dems offer rival bill on GMO food labels","datePublished":"2016-03-02T21:51:00+00:00","dateModified":"2023-07-24T15:09:44+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/senate-dems-offer-rival-bill-on-gmo-food-labels\/"},"wordCount":309,"keywords":["Agriculture"],"articleSection":["In the News"],"inLanguage":"es-MX"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/senate-dems-offer-rival-bill-on-gmo-food-labels\/","url":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/senate-dems-offer-rival-bill-on-gmo-food-labels\/","name":"Senate Dems offer rival bill on GMO food labels - Merkley","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/#website"},"datePublished":"2016-03-02T21:51:00+00:00","dateModified":"2023-07-24T15:09:44+00:00","author":{"@id":""},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/senate-dems-offer-rival-bill-on-gmo-food-labels\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"es-MX","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/senate-dems-offer-rival-bill-on-gmo-food-labels\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/senate-dems-offer-rival-bill-on-gmo-food-labels\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Senate Dems offer rival bill on GMO food labels"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/","name":"merkley","description":"merkley","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"es-MX"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"","url":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/author\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15007,"href":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5631\/revisions\/15007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}