With a little over two months until Vermont’s genetically modified organism labeling law takes effect on July 1, corporations in the food business are scrambling to comply. It’s not just billion-dollar food conglomerates that must change their labels, but also little general stores that make and package egg salad and other food.
People familiar with the grocery business expect the new labels to be on the shelves generally as scheduled, but they also expect some hiccups. And it seems the law in little Vermont will affect how food is labeled in the rest of the country, or at least the northeast. What Vermonters and others will do with the new information — how it will affect their buying choices — is a multi-billion dollar experiment.
In 2014, Vermont passed the nation’s first law mandating labeling of broad classes of food that contains or may contain genetically modified organisms. The law has (so far) survived both a federal court challenge and attempts in congress to pre-empt it.
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