Americans Deserve Transparency on GMOs from Trump Administration

For Immediate Release

June 27, 2017

Americans Deserve Transparency on GMOs from Trump Administration

WASHINGTON – The Department of Agriculture released a list of questions this week, urging consumers and companies alike to weigh in on how the Trump administration should proceed in implementing the federal GMO labeling law passed in 2016. The questions will help Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue craft a national labeling standard, but it is important Americans who demand the right to know what is in their food make their voices heard, said Just Label It chairman Gary Hirshberg.

“Now’s the time for ordinary Americans to express our points of view. All of us want to know what we’re feeding our families, and we expect that all GMOs – including GMO sugars and and oils – will be covered by the new rules as part of the GMO disclosure law passed by Congress,” Hirshberg said. “We also expect to get ingredient-by-ingredient disclosures, just like consumers in other countries already get, and that any digital options will work for all consumers – including people who don’t have smartphones. The USDA is asking the right questions, and its posting of them today will help ensure that its work is completed by next summer. Now it’s up to consumers to help the USDA by doing our part in providing comments to the agency.”