The USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Services has proposed three sets of symbols to be used on labels of products compliant with the National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard.
Proposed by the AMS, the NBFDS rule’s comment period ended on July 3, 2018. Two years ago, on July 29, 2016, Public Law 114-216 amended the Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 by adding Subtitles E and F, which direct the Secretary to establish the NBFDS for disclosing any bioengineered (BE) food product that may be bioengineered. Subtitle E directs the Secretary to establish requirements and procedures necessary to carry out the new standard and conduct a study to identify potential technological challenges related to electronic or digital disclosure methods.