date:Apr 11, 2014
The Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act, a bill to be introduced into the House of Representatives April 9, is designed to prevent individual states from passing legislation requiring the labeling of food and beverage products that contain bioengineered ingredients. The bill is co-sponsored by Representative Mike Pompeo of Kansas and Representative G.K. Butterfield of North Carolina.
Other aspects of the bill would make mandatory a Food and Drug Administration safety review of all new bioengine