{"id":228837,"date":"2016-03-04T12:53:50","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T12:53:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=228837"},"modified":"2016-03-04T12:53:50","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T12:53:50","slug":"labeling-gmo-dems-put-forward-new-bill-%c2%91dark-act%c2%92-pushed-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/labeling-gmo-dems-put-forward-new-bill-%c2%91dark-act%c2%92-pushed-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"Labeling GMO: Dems put forward new bill as \u0091Dark Act\u0092 pushed on the hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>US Senate Democrats have offered an alternative GMO labeling bill that would require manufacturers to disclose the presence of GMOs to consumers, while still allowing them to choose how to comply with the law.<\/p>\n<p>\u0093Rather than blocking consumers\u0092 access to information they want, the US Senate should move forward with a solution that works for business and consumers alike,\u0094 said Senator Jeff Merkley (D, Oregon) the lead sponsor of the bill which was introduced on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Merkley\u0092s Biotechnology Food Labeling and Uniformity Act would allow American consumers to see whether a food had been prepared with genetically modified ingredients on the Nutrition Fact Panel, reported the Hill.<\/p>\n<p>Manufacturers would be given a choice of four ways to display the \u0093fact:\u0094 a parenthesis to indicate the food is genetically modified; an asterisk with an explanation at the bottom of the ingredients list; the catchall phrase \u0093produced with genetic engineering,\u0094 or the FDA would develop a symbol to disclosure the presence of GM ingredients.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/redicecreations.com\/article.php?id=35401\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Senate Democrats have offered an alternative GMO labeling bill that would require manufacturers to disclose the presence of GMOs to consumers, while still allowing them to choose how to comply with the law. \u0093Rather than blocking consumers\u0092 access to information they want, the US Senate should move forward with a solution that works for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-228837","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228837\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}