The Center for Food Safety responds to the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) new proposed regulations for the oversight of growing genetically engineered (GE) crops. It is the Center’s view that while stricter regulation of growing and field testing GE crops is needed, the USDA’s proposal fails to fully protect the public’s safety or [...]
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CFS is pleased to announce that California’s first state bill on genetically engineered crops has become law! On Saturday Sept. 27, Governor Schwarzenegger signed AB 541. Under this law, farmers that are unknowingly contaminated by GE crops in California are now protected from all kinds of liability, and Monsanto must now use a protocol to [...]
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Consumer Preference, Lack of Market Acceptance Driving the Issue, Companies Say The Center for Food Safety and Friends of the Earth announced that 20 of America’s leading food producers and retailers have stated that they will not use cloned animals in their food. The companies include Kraft Foods; General Mills; Gerber/Nestle; Campbell Soup Company; Gossner [...]
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