A cloture vote is expected Wednesday in the U.S. Senate on a national biotech labeling bill. Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley says if they get solid numbers on cloture, he anticipates a vote on the Roberts-Stabenow compromise measure sometime on Thursday. He expects the House to act quickly on the Senate bill once it’s approved.
The compromise establishes a national mandatory biotech labeling program based on QR codes that consumers would scan, instead of an on-package label. Grassley says the House will have to accept the Senate measure or they’ll end up without a resolution on the biotech labeling issue.
Grassley says once the Senate and House put their conference report together on the biotech labeling law and it’s signed by the President it will retroactively eliminate Vermont’s state labeling mandate.
