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Food producers can use these two logos approved by the USDA to label bioengineered food un-
der the new national standard that took effect on Jan. 1.

In other words, just because we haven’t reactions in people, sickness, sterility,
found it, it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. and fatalities in livestock.

Nobody knows with certainty what the We wanted to bring this issue to your
long-term implications are as these are attention so you could do your own

relatively new technologies. There are no research and make more informed
long-term studies. Bioengineered foods decisions.
may be safe — in fact, the American

Medical Association, the National Be well,
Academy of Sciences, the American Katerina

Association for the Advancement
of Science, and the World Health Resources:
Organization all tell us that they Genetically Modified Foods: Breeding Uncertainty

probably are. But many people, especially
in our community, express concerns GMO is out, ‘bioengineered’ is in, as new U.S. food
labeling rules take effect
about trusting these entities and their
statements. Some controversial studies What is the List of Bioengineered Foods?
link BE crops to toxic and allergic

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