Thanks to Dennis Dey, Richard Wolfson, and NLP Wessex for these items. Worry over GMO food slowly growing in Japan Corn growers publish results of elevator survey GM free feed cannot meet rising demand Vote at the Times online poll Articles have been aggressively shortened. The Food and Drug Administration has just announced a new initiative to inform and engage the public about bioengineered foods.
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We strongly urge you to attend the FDA public hearing closest to you. A U.S. move to consider labelling genetically modified foods looks to European campaigners like a huge climbdown in a transatlantic split over the use of biotechnology in food. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Monday it would re-examine the safety of GM foods and whether special labels may be needed. Copyright 1999 Reuters Limited. A European Union plan to establish a precise threshold for when to label food containing genetically modified material is a welcome development, but vigilance is needed to ensure that the plan is not used to bar U.S. imports, a U.S. official said on Thursday.