Food safety battle: organic vs. biotech

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Organic food activists promise that those foods will remain on shelves for those who do not want genetically modified foods, but biotech companies are buying seed companies and re-engineering traditional organic pesticides. The USDA has proposed labeling standards for foods called 'organic' and they may be revised and accepted by the organic food industry. That might raise consumer confidence in organic products. In the world, acreage planted with genetically engineered crops likely will triple by 2000. In time the second wave of biotech foods will be on the market, those which are nutritionally or medicinally enhanced through gene splicing.

Standards, Product information, Natural foods industry, Health foods industry, Chemical industry, Genetically modified plants, United States. Department of Agriculture, Molecular biology, Labels, Pesticides industry, Food supply, Biotechnology, Seed industry

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Should all genetically engineered foods by labeled?

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Genetically engineered foods must be so labeled because federal law and basic ethics and morality demand it according to Steven M. Druker, executive director, Alliance for Bio-Integrity. According to L. Val Giddings, vp food/agriculture, Biotechnology Industry Organization, Consumers have a right to accurate, informative labels on health/safety implications of food products, but when a modified food is from crops nutritionally indistinguishable from others, labels that mislead consumers should not be attached.

Biotechnology industry, Biotechnology industries, Health foods, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Natural foods, Consumers, United States. Food and Drug Administration, Attitudes

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