Titled “GMOs, Herbicides, and Public Health,” the paper by Philip J. This comes after the House of Representatives passed a bill last month that would block states from enacting their own labeling laws and make it nearly impossible for the FDA ever to implement national mandatory labeling of genetically engineered foods. Environmental Working Group Citing GMO-Herbicide Link, Renowned Children’s Health Expert Calls for GMO LabelingĪn article published today in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine by two of the nation’s most respected experts on pesticides and children’s environmental health calls for the Food and Drug Administration to require mandatory labeling of genetically engineered (GMO) food. The article also calls for the Environmental Protection Agency to delay its permit to allow the use of Enlist Duo, what the article refers to as “a new combination herbicide” that has been “formulated to combat herbicide resistance” to such agents as glyphosate (Roundup).

“And the argument that there is nothing new about genetic rearrangement misses the point that GM crops are now the agricultural products most heavily treated with herbicides and that two of these herbicides may pose risks of cancer.” “It would respect the wishes of a growing number of consumers who insist they have a right to know what foods they are buying and how they were produced,” the two write. The two write that such labeling “is essential for tracking emergence of novel food allergies and assessing effects of chemical herbicides applied to GM crops.” Landrigan, co-author with Charles Benbrook, of the article entitled “GMOs, Herbicides, and Public Health.”

“We believe the time has come to revisit the United States’ reluctance to label GM foods,” writes Dr. A Perspective article published today in the New England Journal of Medicine calls for the labeling of genetically modified foods.

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