The USDA has issued its final rule on the labeling of genetically modified—or bioengineered—food products.
The rule clarifies what foods can be exempted and how inadvertent amounts of biotech ingredients will be treated.
USDA undersecretary Greg Ibach, speaking this morning at a dairy conference in Madison, Wisconsin, said he expects the rule to receive mixed reviews.
“There are very divergent points of view—whether or not you support and believe in biotechnology being able to be the future of agriculture and help us develop sustainable food systems, or whether you’re one of those people that don’t think that it works in the future of agriculture,” Ibach said.
