A U.S. District Court says the USDA’s decision to allow genetically engineered foods to only be labeled with a QR code is unlawful.
The Center for Food Safety says USDA is required to add additional disclosure options to those foods under the USDA’s Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard.
“This is a victory for all Americans,” says Meredith Stevenson, Center for Food Safety staff attorney and counsel in the case.
“The decision marks a key step toward ending the food industry’s deceptive and discriminatory GMO food labeling practices, which have kept consumers in the dark by concealing what’s in their products.”
The Court sent back to the agency the QR code portions of the 2018 Trump administration rules for GMO labeling that went into effect on January 1 of this year.
The Center also says the court now confirmed that the USDA acted unlawfully in allowing standalone QR code and other electronic GMO labeling.
