Mandatory Labeling News Today

RAPID CITY S.D. – Sen. Mike Rounds spoke to an audience of cattle producers from across the nation at the 2023 Annual R-Calf Convention held at the Monument in Rapid

On May 8, 2014, Governor Peter Shumlin of Vermont signed Act 120 into law.[1] This law will become enforceable on July 1, 2016, and is one of the country’s first mandatory-labeling laws for genetically modified organisms (GMOs).[2] Connecticut and Maine also have passed GMO-labeling laws, and similar bills have been introduced in many other state legislatures.[3]

Legitimizing mandatory labeling could set the stage for more expansive labeling requirements that have little to do with food.