The National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard is a national mandatory regulation that requires disclosure on food products containing ingredients that are or may be bioengineered. The regulation became effective January 1, 2020. Food manufacturers and retailers are required to provide the disclosure on products starting January 1, 2022. The Standard defines bioengineered foods as "those that contain detectable genetic material that has been modified through certain lab techniques and cannot be created through conventional breeding or found in nature." Sometimes the terms "bioengineering," "GMO," and "genetic engineering" are used interchangeably, but disclosures under the Standard must use the term "bioengineered."
Some bioengineered ingredients may be processed in such a way that the ingredient no longer contains detectable genetic material, and therefore products containing them would not need to include a bioengineered disclosure statement. For example, soybean oil, if processed in such a way that it no longer contains detectable genetic material, would not be required to include a bioengineered disclosure statement on the product's label.
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