The “Natural” Problem in California’s Biotech Food Labeling Initiative, we stated that, "Part of this ballot initiative would require all raw and processed foods whose production was ...

WASHINGTON, April 11, 2012 -Several large organic food marketers and anti-biotech activists want the Obama Administration to reverse a 20-year policy of opposing mandatory labeling of genetically ...

The health agency would require mandatory labeling on food with genetically modified ingredients if they are found to be unsafe or materially different from foods produced without biotech ingredients.

The issue has been further clouded by recent attempts to pass state and local laws calling for labels on foods with ingredients developed through biotechnology, regardless of the actual impact on the ...

Such cheer-leading statements don't explain why Washington consumers need mandated biotech labels. They do, however, reveal one underlying motivation behind I-522: prop up the organic food industry.

It will be the death of the technology in a real sense if we have obligatory labeling. She may really believe this, but Chilton's ominous fear for the future of her field strikes me as overwrought as ...

WASHINGTON -- Consumer groups and the biotech industry are issuing different interpretations of a new international agreement on the labeling of food containing ingredients derived from biotech seed.

It is such a tempestuous topic that organizers of the world's largest biotechnology conference scrubbed a Canadian proposal to have a panel discuss labeling during last week's gathering.

But those in the food industry say this was not a case of a biotech product being rushed to market without safety testing. Nor, they say, would labeling have made a difference in this case ...