Center for Food Safety: GE Salmon Anti-Labeling Ad Rebuttal Statement

OREGON–(ENEWSPF)–October 31, 2014.  Statement of George Kimbrell, Senior Attorney, Center for Food Safety, and the lead author of Measure 92:

The claim in the recent No on Measure 92 tv ad that the U.S. Federal Government will require the labeling of Aquabounty’s proposed genetically engineered (GE) salmon is false. 

In August 2010 the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) first proposed commercial approval of this salmon, which has a gene from an eel-like fish inserted into…