Because we have found that it is not material to safety or nutritional composition. And appreciate that. Let me, in the case of sugar. Right . We, sugar processors require to label whether refined table sugar comes from, i guess the question is, are sugarw km processors required to label whether refined table sugar comes from a certain species or plant . . Im sorry, i dont you dont require fine table sugar to label whether it comes from sugar beets or from cane. No. Why . Again, i think its a question of materiality. Would consumers be rkykcany,d they get any benefit if that labeling requirement for fine table sugar also had a requirement, well, tiie is beet produced fine table sugar or sugar cane fine table sugar . Again, what we focus on is the attribute of the food at consumer we think would eat it. For the genetically engineered ingredients in foods today, is there any evidence that they vary in their objective characteristics in any meaningful or uniform way . No. Not as a class.
Facts. So is if you revise8xiv whatn the nutrition panel, and you decide theres some additional themes that ought to be in jn there, then that would cut across the entire Food Industry in a significant way, in terms of revising its labels, correct . Yes. B 9nnyg thank you. Timesjn the chair recognizes five minutes. Thanks for your 30 years of service. I understand youre closer to beginning at this point. Ay thank you for your good work. Its been interesting to watch. I think lots of folks bv watch this hearing this morning have been surprised by the certainty youre expressing around the 7n science. You used the word consensus. Ti z ill try to parse into that a little more. That can be 80 20 or 90 10. Tell me how much science there is that would refute your position with respect to the materiality of genetically engineering food being safe . ipr t hahp hc again, as a class, that theres any question about safety. Based on the row eviews we have done. Go ahead. There are obviously scient
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