The food industry stands behind foods and food products that have been improved through biotechnology, and ensures that they meet all federal requirements for food quality and safety.
Food companies have a critical stake in ensuring and safeguarding the integrity of their brands.
The U.S. Government as well plays an important role in ensuring food safety. Several federal agencies are involved in determining the safety of biotechnology in food and food production, and a coordinated framework to ensure human and environmental safety was put into place more than a decade ago. Since 1992 the FDA has determined that foods from plants produced through biotechnology are, as a class, as safe as those from plants developed through conventional breeding, and should therefore be regulated the same as any other foods entering the market. Under the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, the FDA usually focuses on the product, the food, or food ingredients rather than on the plant development processes used in their production, as the basis for regulation. The same holds true for food and ingredients derived from biotechnology.