date:Mar 12, 2019
In 2015, the Food and Drug Administration declared GMO salmon safe for consumption. At the time, Congress was debating if and how to label all genetically modified foods, so the FDA put a halt on the import of the fish until labeling issues could be worked out. Last year, the USDA announced that it had finalized food labels for genetically engineered foods. The agency settled on the phrase bioengineered for the labels, even though the public is accustomed to the term GMO.
On March 8, the FDA op