USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) has posted a list of 30 questions

USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) has posted a list of 30 questions it is asking stakeholders to consider as it collects public input for drafting a rule to implement the GMO labeling law signed nearly a year ago. Meat and poultry are subject to a bioengineered disclosure only if they are the predominant ingredient, or the second most predominant ingredient when the first is broth or a similar solution. AMS seeks input on how it should determine predominance of ingredients. AMS also asks how it should craft language acknowledging that animals consuming bioengineered feed are exempt from the disclosure requirements as bioengineered solely because they fed on bioengineered feed. Stakeholders also are asked to respond to questions such as: What terms should AMS consider interchangeable with bioengineering, and what amount of a bioengineered substance present in a food should make it be considered bioengineered? The National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard for foods containing genetically modified organisms was enacted on July 29, 2016. AMS has two years to establish a national standard and the procedures necessary for implementation.