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General Discussion

   National

• Vote 'No' On Labeling Food, Editorial, The Oregonian, September 24, 2002

• Should Genetically Modified Foods be Labeled? by Craig Holdrege, NetFuture #135, a publication of The Nature Institute, August, 2002

• FDA Warns of Misleading Labels On Genetic Modification in Foods, The Wall Street Journal, December 20, 2001

• Organic foods cop it sweet under GM label laws, Sydney Morning Herald, November 19, 2001

• Draft Guidance for Industry: Voluntary Labeling Indicating Whether Foods Have or Have Not Been Developed Using Bioengineering, Federal Register Docket No. 00D-1598, Submitted by Brian Baker. Ph.D. on behalf of OMRI.

• NFPA Supports Voluntary Biotech Labeling Guidance, Press Release, National Food Producers Association, March 21, 2001

• Majority of Americans Favor Biofood Labels, Reuters, February 23, 2001

• Consumers Want Engineered Food Labeled: Shoppers Express 'Outrage' That Product Choices Aren't Clear, FDA Reports, Washington Post, February 13, 2001
  • Report on Consumer Focus Groups on Biotechnology, October 20, 2000
  • Statement of Joseph A. Levitt, Esq. Director, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration, Department of Health and Human Services, Before the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, United States Senate, September 26, 2000

•   Economic Research Service (ERS) USDA, Report on the Economics of Food Labeling, December 2000
  • Biotech Food Labeling (pdf 30K)

• A portion of Procter and Gamble's "Notice of Annual Mtg and Proxy Statement", mailed to stockholders prior to their annual meeting (Oct 10, 2000) of shareholders.

• Science should prevail over politics on food safety and biotechnology, letter to U.S. Senate from Christopher Bond (R-MO.) February 10, 2000

• Vanderhoef Supports Voluntary GMO Labeling, The Davis Enterprise, February 2000

• Eating Well: What Labels Don't Tell You (Yet), New York Times, February 9, 2000

• Monitoring and Labeling for Genetically Modified Products, Science, 287:431-432. January 21, 2000.

• A Rational Approach to Labeling Biotech-Derived Foods, Science, Volume 284 -- Number 5419, May 28, 1999

• Farmer Will Testify at FDA Hearing on Altered Foods, San Francisco Chronicle, December 13, 1999

• Agri-Food Community Open Letter to President Clinton on Science-based Labeling of Foods, November 12, 1999

• Motley Group Pushes For FDA Labels On Biofoods, Wall Street Journal, August 18, 1999

• Next Food Fight Brewing Is Over Listing Genes on Labels Processors, Retailers Resisting Demand of Some Consumer Groups, Washington Post, August 15, 1999

• Debate Rages Over Labeling of Genetically Altered Food, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, May 20, 1999

• Jeopardizing the Future? Genetic Engineering, Food and the Environment, Consumer Policy Institute/Consumers Union, January, 1999

   International

• Food labelling bill introduced in Australia, Royal Society News, October 4, 2003

• EU Parliament May Expand Biotech Food-Labeling Rules, Wall Street Journal, July 2, 2002

• Labelling pact near for genetically modified food, The National Post, March 4, 2002

• U.S. Pressures Europe to Drop GMO Labeling Rules, ENS, January 16, 2002

• Labelling laws leave EU in GMO quandry, Reuters, November 8, 2001

• Anti-GMO Sentiments Thrive Overseas, Rooster News Network, October 26, 2001

• Greenpeace chides Canada, grocers on food labeling, Reuters via just-food.com, October 30, 2001

• Europe May Lift Moratorium on Approvals For GMOs If U.S. Accepts Labeling Rules, Wall Street Journal, October 8, 2001

• Canadian Cabinet split on GMO labels, The Western Producer, October 11, 2001

• Food Traceability Report Weekly, For the week of October 15, 2001

• Manitoba farm group speaks out against genetically modified food labels, Canadian Press, October 11, 2001

• Bush on Wrong Side of Food Labeling, Capital Times (Madison, WI), September 4, 2001

• U.S. Challenges EU's Biotech Food Standards, Washington Post, August 26, 2001

• US May Provoke Row Over GM Food Labelling, The Independent (London), August 14, 2001

• Cardoso Inks Brazilian GM Labeling Decree, International Environment Reporter, Volume 24 Number 16, August 1, 2001

• Plans Tight Biotech Food Controls: Labeling Rules Carry Risk of Trade Dispute With U.S., Washington Post Foreign Service, April 11, 2001

• Delay in GM labelling laws makes consumers turn to organic, just-food.com editorial team, March 19, 2001

• Predicted Failure of Mandatory Labels for Genetically Modified Foods, by Alan McHughen, University of Saskatchewan, February 2001

• Industry mobilizes to modify Mexico's labeling measures, Cropchoice.com, February 13, 2001

• Labeling Foods With Designer Genes, New York Times, January 3, 2001

• Mandatory Segregation of GM Crops in U.S. Seen as Prerequisite to New EU Approvals, BNA, Volume 23 Number 21, October 11, 2000

• FAO calls for labeling of GM feeds, Feedstuffs July 31

• AgBiotech InfoNet International Policy section

• News from Chile, Chile Sustainable, January 2000

• Canadian consumer informs the Canola Council of decision to avoid Canadian canola because of GMO concerns, Stephen Porter, May, 1999