USDA Releases Questions for Input on the National Bioengineered Disclosure Standard Proposed Rule

USDA Releases Questions for Input on the National Bioengineered Disclosure Standard Proposed Rule

June 28, 2017, Covington Alert

Today, USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) released 30 questions to gather input from stakeholders that it will use in drafting a proposed rule as required by The National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard enacted last year on July 29, 2016 (click here for Covington’s client alert). By statute, AMS has two years--until July 29, 2018--to establish a national disclosure standard and the procedures necessary to implement the standard.