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Friday, May 25, 2012

Battle Brewing Over Labeling of Genetically Modified Food

GENETICALLY MODIFIED FOOD
AMY HARMON and ANDREW POLLACK
The New York Times
For more than a decade, almost all processed foods in the United States — cereals, snack foods, salad dressings — have contained ingredients from plants whose DNA was manipulated in a laboratory. Regulators and many scientists say these pose no danger. But as Americans ask more pointed questions about what they are eating, popular suspicions about the health and environmental effects of biotechnology are fueling a movement to require that food from genetically modified crops be labeled, if not eliminated.