about potential environmental risks associated with 
the genetic engineering of crops, and religiously and 
ethically based dietary restrictions. 
(5) Consumers have a right to know whether 
the food they purchase contains or was produced 
with genetically engineered material. 
(6) Labels voluntarily placed on foods are insuf-
ficient to provide consumers with adequate informa-
tion on whether or not all the food they are pur-
chasing contains or was produced with genetically 
engineered material. 
(7) Mandatory labeling provides a critical sci-
entific 
method 
necessary 
for 
the 
continual 
postmarket surveillance to study long-term health 
impacts and enforcement of food safety laws pre-
venting adulterated foods from reaching consumers. 
(8) Many of the United States key trading 
partners, including countries in the European 
Union, Japan, and the People’s Republic of China, 
have established, or are in the process of imple-
menting, mandatory labeling requirements for ge-
netically engineered food. 
(9) Adoption and implementation of mandatory 
labeling requirements for genetically engineered food 
produced in the United States would facilitate inter-
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national trade by allowing American farmers and 
companies to export and appropriately market their 
products—both genetically engineered and non-ge-
netically engineered—to foreign customers. 
SEC. 3. LABELING REGARDING GENETICALLY ENGINEERED 
MATERIAL; 
AMENDMENTS 
TO 
FEDERAL 
FOOD, DRUG, AND COSMETIC ACT. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 403 of the Federal Food, 
Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 343) is amended by 
adding at the end the following new subsection: 
‘‘(z)(1) If it contains a genetically engineered mate-
rial, or was produced with a genetically engineered mate-
rial, unless it bears a label (or labeling, in the case of a 
raw agricultural commodity, other than the sale of such 
a commodity at retail) that provides notices in accordance 
with the following: 
‘‘(A) A notice as follows: ‘GENETICALLY 
ENGINEERED’. 
‘‘(B) A notice as follows: ‘THIS PRODUCT 
CONTAINS A GENETICALLY ENGINEERED 
MATERIAL, OR WAS PRODUCED WITH A GE-
NETICALLY ENGINEERED MATERIAL’. 
‘‘(C) The notice required in clause (A) imme-
diately precedes the notice required in clause (B) 
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and is not less than twice the size of the notice re-
quired in clause (B). 
‘‘(D) The notice required in clause (B) is of the 
same size as would apply if the notice provided nu-
trition information that is required in paragraph 
(q)(1). 
‘‘(E) The notices required in clauses (A) and 
(B) are clearly legible and conspicuous. 
‘‘(2) For purposes of subparagraph (1): 
‘‘(A) 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. 
‘‘(B) The term ‘genetically engineered orga-
nism’ means— 
‘‘(i) an organism (including fish) that has 
been altered at the molecular or cellular level by 
means that are not possible under natural con-
ditions or processes (including but not limited 
to recombinant DNA and RNA techniques, cell 
fusion, microencapsulation, macroencapsulation, 
gene deletion and doubling, introducing a for-
eign gene, and changing the positions of genes), 
other than a means consisting exclusively of 
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