Genetically Modified Food: Should It Be Labeled?
No state currently requires genetically modified food to be identified as such. Whole Foods and some state lawmakers want to see that change.
Pennsylvania could become the first state to require food manufacturers to disclose if their products have been genetically modified. A bill proposed in Harrisburg by state Sen. Daylin Leach (D-Montgomery, Delaware) would require all food manufacturers in the state to label any foods that contained genetically modified organisms (GMOs). If passed, Pennsylvania would be the first state to require such labeling for foods. DNA alterations can make organic materials more hardy or resistant. Critics say the results of these experiments should be studied before products are introduced to the general public. While there is “some potential good” to genetic modification in food, Leach said, people “have the right to know what foods do and do not …
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Byron Varvarigos
9:26 pm on Friday, April 12, 2013
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