SEC. 4. LABELING REGARDING GENETICALLY ENGINEERED 
MATERIAL; AMENDMENTS TO FEDERAL MEAT 
INSPECTION ACT. 
(a) REQUIREMENTS.—The Federal Meat Inspection 
Act is amended by inserting after section 7 (21 U.S.C. 
607) the following section: 
‘‘SEC. 7A. REQUIREMENTS FOR LABELING REGARDING GE-
NETICALLY ENGINEERED MATERIAL. 
‘‘(a) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
‘‘(1) The term ‘meat food’ means a carcass, 
part of a carcass, meat, or meat food product that 
is derived from cattle, sheep, swine, goats, horses, 
mules, or other equines and is capable of use as 
human food. 
‘‘(2) The term ‘genetically engineered material’ 
means material derived from any part of a geneti-
cally engineered organism, without regard to wheth-
er the altered molecular or cellular characteristics of 
the organism are detectable in the material (and 
without regard to whether the organism is capable 
of use as human food). 
‘‘(3) The term ‘genetically engineered organism’ 
means— 
‘‘(A) an organism that has been altered at 
the molecular or cellular level by means that are 
not possible under natural conditions or proc-
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esses (including but not limited to recombinant 
DNA and RNA techniques, cell fusion, micro-
encapsulation, macroencapsulation, gene dele-
tion and doubling, introducing a foreign gene, 
and changing the positions of genes), other 
than a means consisting exclusively of breeding, 
conjugation, fermentation, hybridization, in 
vitro fertilization, tissue culture, or mutagene-
sis; and 
‘‘(B) an organism made through sexual or 
asexual reproduction (or both) involving an or-
ganism described in subparagraph (A), if pos-
sessing any of the altered molecular or cellular 
characteristics of the organism so described. 
‘‘(b) LABELING REQUIREMENT.— 
‘‘(1) REQUIRED
LABELING
TO
AVOID
MIS-
BRANDING.— 
‘‘(A) INVOLVEMENT OF GENETICALLY EN-
GINEERED
MATERIAL.—For purposes of sec-
tions 1(n) and 10, a meat food is misbranded 
if it— 
‘‘(i) contains a genetically engineered 
material or was produced with a geneti-
cally engineered material; and 
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‘‘(ii) does not bear a label (or include 
labeling, in the case of a meat food that is 
not packaged in a container) that provides, 
in a clearly legible and conspicuous man-
ner, the notices described in subsection (c). 
‘‘(B) NO INVOLVEMENT OF GENETICALLY 
ENGINEERED MATERIAL.—For purposes of sec-
tions 1(n) and 10, a meat food is misbranded 
if it bears a label indicating that it does not 
contain a genetically engineered material, or 
that it was not produced with a genetically en-
gineered material, unless the label is in accord-
ance with regulations promulgated by the Sec-
retary. With respect to such regulations: 
‘‘(i) The regulations may not require 
such a label to include any statement indi-
cating that the fact that a meat food does 
not contain such material, or was not pro-
duced with such material, has no bearing 
on the safety of the food for human con-
sumption. 
‘‘(ii) The regulations may not prohibit 
such a label on the basis that, in the case 
of the type of meat food involved, there is 
no version of the food in commercial dis-
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