Senate Ag Committee Continues GMO Labeling Talks

Staffers for members of the Senate Agriculture Committee continue negotiations on reaching a compromise for a national GMO labeling law.

A key Senate aide told The Hagstrom Report this week that staff members for the committee are working on reaching an agreement on behalf of Republican chairman Pat Roberts and the committee’s ranking Democrat Debbie Stabenow.  Less than two weeks of working days remain for Congress to pass a compromise that would supersede the Vermont mandatory GMO labeling law taking effect July 1^st.

The Coalition for a Safe Affordable Food Supply also noted that a New York state law continues to advance, and that the law was an indication of the danger of more states considering state laws with differences, potentially causing “chaos in the marketplace.”

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