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AMA recommends pre-market safety testing of GMOs

Posted: June 24, 2012 |   Comments

This week the American Medical Association (AMA) voted to revise policy, recommending that foods made with genetically modified organisms (GMOs) have mandatory pre-market safety testing. In the battle against foods made with GMOs, we'll take any bit of advancement as a small victory. But far more needs to be done.

The AMA held a meeting in Chicago to discuss the change, according to the Chicago Tribune. It was there that they voted on the policy, sending a clear signal to the Food and Drug Administration that more needs to be done to answer the calls of concerned consumers when it comes to GMO foods. Previously, the AMA has also voiced potential support for the labeling of GMOs.

As it stands, GMO foods are not subject to any testing or measures beyond what any other foods are. Instead, they are "simply encouraged to engage in a voluntary safety consultation" with the FDA prior to releasing a GMO food onto the market. While the general public isn't privy to what goes on in these consultations, the FDAs stance on GMO foods would lead one to believe they are pretty unremarkable.

Some were hoping the AMA would come out in support of GMO labeling. More than one million Americans have signed a petition on the Just Label It website, sending a clear message to the FDA that we want to know what's in our food. Fifty countries worldwide have already passed such legislation, requiring GMO foods to be labeled as such.

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