Legislators Call on FDA to Require GMO Labels | Food Poisoning Bulletin

Legislators Call on FDA to Require GMO Labels | Food Poisoning Bulletin

A letter signed by 55 members of Congress was sent to the FDA on March 12, 2013, asking that agency to require the labeling of genetically modified foods. The letter was signed by Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), Congressman Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Congresswoman Louise Slaughter (D-NY), Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), and fifty-one others. With the exceptions of Richard Hanna and Bernie Sanders, all signers are Democrats. Other signers include Consumers Union, the National Cooperative Grocers Association, and the National Organic Coalition.

The letter is in support of the Center for Food Safety’s legal petition filed on behalf of the Just Label It campaign. That petition was filed in October 2011, and has been signed by more than 850,000 citizens. Andrew Kimbrell, Executive Director for the Center for Food Safety, said, “consumers are being misled about the foods they are purchasing. FDA’s two-decade old decision is bad policy based on outdated science and must be revoked. The American consumer deserves the same fundamental freedoms and choices of other nations’ citizens.”