GMO Labeling: Going to the Dark Side (Part 2) - Karen Howard 8/26/16
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The GMO Labeling Act legislation is now federal law and according to Karen Howard, CEO and Executive Director, Organic & Natural Health Association, it is not legislation that is consumer...
show moreThe idea of each state having different standards for GMO label was thought to protect consumers from the “confusion” and “increased costs” of a “patchwork quilt” of state legislation created at the hands of each state legislature. In reality, state legislation was collaboratively crafted to harmonize requirements across state lines while honoring each state’s power to enforce.
Howard says tells Late Night Health listeners, all that’s been accomplished is passage of a poorly written subversion of states’ rights in exchange for mandating companies to use a “handy dandy QR code” consumers can scan with a smart phone to determine if the products in their grocery carts contain GMO ingredients.
Howard blasted the legislation saying if the bill is “signed into law as is expected, consumers won’t have a clue what the intention of USDA or the FDA is, what the definition of genetically engineered means, or what products contain genetically engineered ingredients given the lack of transparency associated with the likely use of foolish QR codes on labels."
Mark Alyn, host of Late Night Health, will get to the bottom of QR code GMO labeling debacle with Karen Howard, CEO and Executive Director, Organic & Natural Health Association, and find out from a consumer point of view, why this is a bad deal.
air date: 8/26/16
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