date:Sep 18, 2013
eview, the government in 2010 considered approving GMO alfalfa with certain planting restrictions to try to isolate it from non-GMO alfalfa. Instead, USDA approved unrestricted planting in January 2011.
The amount of GMO contamination that might be present in conventional alfalfa is not known. But a December 2011 report by Stephanie Greene, a geneticist with the USDA Agricultural Research Service, ARS, said that after Roundup Ready alfalfa was first deregulated in 2005 industry testing of conve