The U.S. Agriculture Department’s Agricultural Marketing Service has started the process of figuring out how to write the guidelines for the GMO labeling law signed nearly a year ago after it published … a list of 30 questions for stakeholders to answer and comment on.
USDA will use the responses to these open-ended questions to guide the rulemaking process. Answers can be emailed to the department.
The open-ended questions ask people in the industry about things such as how they would define terms, how to determine if a product requires a GMO label and what sort of on-package symbol should be used to denote GMO ingredients.
The GMO labeling law, signed by then-President Obama on July 29 [2016], gave the USDA only two years for the rulemaking process to be completed.
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Now that USDA is at least on the path to do the rulemaking, will the agency be able to get its work done in time? A year is not very long in terms of writing a proposal, opening it up to public comment and then finalizing the regulation….
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