The Center for Food Safety has filed a lawsuit challenging USDA rules on labeling GMO or biotech foods. Their lawsuit claims USDA’s regulation leaves many GMO’s unlabeled. American Soybean Association Vice President Kevin Scott who farms near Valley Springs, South Dakota says the Ag Department wrote those rules carefully and relied on sound science in formulating them.
The Center for Food Safety is also arguing against the use of QR codes or smartphone labeling without requiring additional on package labeling. Scott says it only made sense for the USDA to use technology to cut costs for everyone and still came up with a thorough labeling rule.
Scott says GMOS or Biotech crops are needed in order to feed a growing world population and any attempt to curtail that use with over regulation just hurts producers and consumers in the long run.
Joining the Center for Food Safety in the litigation against the USDA rules are the Natural Grocers group and Puget Consumers Cooperative.
