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American Sugarbeet Growers Association2 months ago

The National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Law was enacted on July 29, 2016. The statute requires the Secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture to create a final rule implementing a disclosure standard for bioengineered food. The U.S. Beet Sugar Industry filed comments on July 3, 2018 in response to the proposed rule for the National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard (Disclosure Standard). In our comments, we urged USDA to exclude refined ingredients, including refined sugar, from the scope of the Disclosure Standard. We also wrote that, “Creating any presumption, even unintentionally, that beet sugar produced from transgenic sugarbeets is different or less desirable than its conventional counterparts or cane sugar is not supported by science.”

Our comments can be viewed here: https://americansugarbeet.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/US-Beet-Sugar-Industry-Comments-of-NBFDS-Proposed-Rule.pdf

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