Mayonnaise - One Example of
Genetic Engineering in the Food Supply
The Non-GMO Project
What is bioengineered food?
https://www.nongmoproject.org/blog/what-is-bioengineered-food/
Secret DNA Altering Ingredients
in the Food Supply?
What is bioengineered food?
Bioengineered, or "BE" for short, is the federal
government's new term for GMOs. Under the Bioengineered Food
labeling law, certain BE foods containing detectable modified
genetic material must disclose the presence of BE ingredients.
The clause "detectible modified genetic material" is crucial
because it excuses many products that are made with GMOs from
making the disclosure. Many products made with new GMO
techniques such as CRISPR, TALEN and RNAi are
currently untestable. Without a commercially available
test, the modified genetic material is undetectable and thus
those foods wouldn’t require a BE label.
Additionally, many processed foods contain highly refined
ingredients made from GMOs. The processing often
leaves no detectable modified genetic material behind in
the final product, and therefore those products also will
not require labels. Common household products that contain
ingredients such as sugar made from GMO sugar beets or cooking
oil made from GMO canola would fall into this category.
