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  • From: Road's End Farm <organic87 AT frontiernet.net>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Now......GMO sweet corn
  • Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 14:20:58 -0400


-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale



On Sep 20, 2011, at 1:50 PM, maury sheets wrote:

“if it is so good why don't you label it ???”
 
Maybe we need reverse labeling.  Start a movement!  If everyone labels their corn that is non GMO, what is left?  It is then easy for the consumer to choose.  Who wouldn’t want to label their corn “NON GMO” if it isn’t?  That maybe the only way around a bad situation.  The USDA sure doesn’t care.
 
Maury Sheets
Woodland Produce
South jersey
 
 

Tricky under current FDA standards, unless they've changed while I wasn't looking. While you can say that in a lengthly form, it might not be allowed in that sort of short wording that fits so nicely on a sign or label; they claim it's misleading advertising.


-- Rivka; Finger Lakes NY, Zone 5 mostly
Fresh-market organic produce, small scale




What is FDA's stand on GMO labeling?  (August 2006)

In consumer and industry press, GMO is the commonly-used acronym for Genetically Modified Organisms. GMO foods are those produced through bioengineering. FDA guidance  states that the agency has "no basis for concluding that bioengineered foods differ from other foods in any meaningful or uniform way, or that, as a class, foods developed by the new techniques present any different or greater safety concern than foods developed by traditional plant breeding."
 
FDA position on label statements about foods that are not genetically-modified
FDA does not generally allow food labeling such as "GMO-free" because this would imply that the absence of bioengineering makes a product safer or superior to comparable products. FDA has indicated that statements about foods that do not contain ingredients produced from bioengineered foods could avoid or minimize such implication by using the following statement: "We do not use ingredients that were produced using biotechnology."
 
FDA position on label statements about foods that are genetically-modified
FDA does allow manufacturers to use informative statements in labeling of foods that contain ingredients produced from bioengineered foods, e.g., "Genetically engineered" or "This product contains cornmeal that was produced using biotechnology." These statements are optional. However, if a bioengineered food is different in any way from the food it resembles (e.g, nutritional, organoleptic, or functional characteristics), then FDA requires that the label states how the food is different. The example FDA cites is high oleic acid soybean oil from soybeans developed using biotechnology to decrease the amount of saturated fat.

 

FDA's bottom line on GMO labeling (as on all food labeling) is that a food cannot be misbranded in any way. A food is misbranded if its labeling is false or misleading.
  




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