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FDA rules won't require labeling of genetically modified salmon

Saturday, September 18, 2010; 11:20 PM

As the Food and Drug Administration considers whether to approve genetically modified salmon, one thing seems certain: Shoppers staring at fillets in the seafood department will find it tough to pick out the conventional fish from the one created with genes from another species.

Despite a growing public demand for more information about how food is produced, that won't happen with the salmon because of idiosyncracies embedded in federal regulations.

The FDA says it cannot require a label on the genetically modified food once it determines that the altered fish is not "materially" different from other salmon - something agency scientists have said is true.

Perhaps more surprising, conventional food makers say the FDA has made it difficult for them to boast that their products do not contain genetically modified ingredients.

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[comm]

You wont need labels on non-GMO food, all the Luddites can just buy the salmon that costs twice as much as the one next to it.

There's really no reason not to have labels for GMO/non-GMO food though. But I suspect that in 10 years it'll be a mute point since all the non-GMO will be in the local hippie's organic food shack.

[caniff]

[El Exigente]

[visitorq]

Cross species chimera salmon with insect and eel genes that grow twice as fast and extinct wild salmon within 40 generations if released into the wild (which they probably will be). They've also got goat/spider chimeras (spider silk grown in the udders) glow in the dark monkeys, and who knows what else. It's worse than a horror movie.

As for the labeling, the FDA is the most evil institution on earth so it comes as no surprise. I guess I'll just stop eating salmon.

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[Rocktek]