Re: GMO labeling

Hook Family (guldann@ix.netcom.com)
Mon, 13 Dec 1999 07:03:44 -0800

> The food industry fears that requiring labels on biotech
> foods would make
> consumers unnecessarily wary of such products.
>
> Jill wrote:
Instead of requiring labels on biotech foods, the FDA
> should develop
> standards for products that claim to be free from
biotech
> ingredients, say
> food manufacturers. Any biotech-free claims "must be
> substantiated," said
> John Gray, president of the International Foodservice
> Distributors
> Association.
>
> About 100 scientists, industry representatives, farmers
> and private citizens
> testified at the hearing. The FDA's last hearing will be
> Dec. 13 in Oakland,
> Calif.
>
> © Copyright 1999 The Associated Press

I was wondering this. Why can't products say they are free of GM. And of
course I mean they have actually tested and really are free. Or are they
"forbidden" to be truthful. Beth

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