Editor’s Note: Each year, the writers and editors of Food Safety News pick the top 10 news stories based on the story’s overall importance within the food safety community. This year, we’ve added a separate
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Letter From the Editor: Rural Voters Veto GMO Labeling (Again)
There are not many people or voters in rural counties, but there sure are a lot of rural counties. In Garfield County in Washington state, almost 82 percent of the voters rejected Initiative 522, the
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Poll: GMO Labeling Initiative 'Too Close to Call' in Washington State
Initiative 522 opponents in Washington State have apparently shifted some voters against the ballot measure to require labeling of food containing genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The state’s only independent, non-partisan survey research firm, known as
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GMO Safety Debate Makes Washington State Voters' Pamphlet
Apparently food safety is an Initiative 522 campaign issue as it’s come up in an important venue – the State of Washington voters’ pamphlet. In the official “Argument Against” I-522, representatives of the “No on
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Early Editorials Against GMO Labeling Initiative in Washington State
An early indication last year that California’s Proposition 37 might be in trouble was its unpopularity with the state’s newspaper editorial writers. The same phenomenon may be playing out in the Evergreen State, where scribes
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GMO Labeling Battle in Washington State Off To Familiar Start
Nobody is calling it “Little GMO” after California’s “Big GMO” yet, but Initiative 522 in Washington State looks like it is on the same track as the Golden State’s ill-fated Proposition 37. Except it has
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Campaign for GM Food Labeling Gets New State Battleground
Sunday’s end to the Washington State Legislature’s 105-day regular session means Evergreen State voters are going to decide whether genetically modified food should be labeled. That’s because lawmakers in Olympia took no action on Initiative
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GMO Labeling Bill Introduced in U.S. Congress
Today Colorado’s Jared Polis will announce, outside a reborn organic retail store in Boulder, that he is introducing a federal bill in Congress to mandate the labeling of food containing genetically modified organisms in all
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Campaign to Label GM Foods Moves To Washington State
More than enough signatures were filed in Washington State, 24 hours before today’s deadline, to send an initiative to the Legislature that would require the labeling of genetically engineered foods sold at retail. If the
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