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Posted by PHM Life Team on 15th Feb 2017

No matter where you stand on the GMO issue, everyone will be affected by the new law that went into effect 7 months ago.

In a nutshell, last July President Barack Obama signed a bill into law requiring the labeling of food containing genetically modified ingredients, following a drawn-out battle between the food industry and pro-labeling groups on the issue.

The bill that was signed came as a compromise because The earlier version passed by the House would have made GMO labeling a voluntary program.

Still many don’t think the new law goes far enough to protect all consumers of every economic level.

The law isn’t specific about how the GMO information will be made known on packaging. It may be a universal symbol, a 1-800 number or a QR code that has to be scanned with a smartphone, which will take the consumer to a website for GMO information.

And “Since the bill was just signed into law and the rules and regulations have not been developed yet, it is too early to say what companies will do when the regulations are finalized. In addition, each company will make its own decision,” Roger Lowe of the Grocery Manufacturers Association said.

The USDA has 14 more months to finalize the regulations.

What we do know is that Meat and other products, like milk or butter, from animals that consumed GMO feed, will not have to be labeled.

And organically-produced products are by definition non-GMO, and the law now allows producers who are certified organic to put a “GMO-free” label on their products without having to go through a third-party certifier.

At PHM Life, we use PCR Testing on our products to verify that there are no GMO ingredients present. We aim for the highest tier of quality for every health product we carry.

To get even more information on the new GMO labeling law, visit ModernFarmer.com or CenterForFood Safetey.org

Keeping you informed and healthy,

PHM Life Team
http://www.phmlife.com/

P.S. Here are the Eleven Scientific Reasons Not to Eat Genetically Modified Food found on phmiracleliving.com:

Scientific Reasons to Avoid GMOs at All Costs

1) A study reported in the June 2013 issue of the peer-reviewed Journal of Organic Systems involved research conducted over 22.7 weeks using 168 newly weaned pigs in a commercial U.S. piggery. One group of 84 pigs ate a diet that incorporated genetically modified (GM) soy and corn, and the other group of 84 pigs ate an equivalent non-GM diet. The pigs that ate the GM diet had a higher rate of severe stomach inflammation – 32 percent of GM-fed pigs compared to 12 percent of non-GM-fed pigs (see photo above). The inflammation was worse in GM-fed males compared to non-GM fed males by a factor of 4.0, and GM-fed females compared to non-GM-fed females by a factor of 2.2. (Source)

2) In 2012, researchers found that female rats fed Roundup Ready-tolerant GM corn developed large tumors and dysfunction of the pituitary gland; males also developed tumors and exhibited pathologies of the liver and kidney (Séralini, GE and others. Long term toxicity of a Roundup herbicide and a Roundup-tolerant genetically modified maiz. Food and Chemical Toxicology 2012).

3) Scientists at the Russian Academy of Sciences reported between 2005 and 2006 that female rats fed Roundup Ready-tolerant GM soy produced excessive numbers of severely stunted pups with more than half of the litter dying within three weeks, and the surviving pups completely sterile. (Source)

4) In 2005, scientists at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization in Canberra, Australia reported that a harmless protein in beans (alpha-amylase inhibitor 1) transferred to peas via genetic engineering caused inflammation in the lungs of mice and provoked sensitivities to other proteins in the diet (Ho MW. Transgenic pea that made mice ill. Science in Society 29, 28-29, 2006).

5) From 2002 to 2005, scientists at the Universities of Urbino, Perugia and Pavia in Italy published reports indicating that GM soy affected cells in the pancreas, liver and testes of young mice (Science in Society 29, 26-27, 2006).

6) In 2004, Monsanto's secret research dossier showed that rats fed MON863 GM corn developed serious kidney and blood abnormalities (GMWatch, 23 April 2004.)

7) In 1998, Dr. Arpad Pusztai and colleagues formerly of the Rowett Institute in Scotland reporteddamage in every organ system of young rats fed GM potatoes containing snowdrop lectin, including a stomach lining twice as thick as controls (Contaminants and Toxins, (J P F D'Mello ed.), Scottish Agricultural College, Edinburgh, CAB International, 2003).

8) Also in 1998, scientists in Egypt found similar effects in the guts of mice fed Bt potato (Fares NH and El-Sayed AK. Fine structural changes in the ileum of mice fed on dendotoxin-treated potatotes and transgenic potatoes. Natural Toxins, 1998, 6, 219-33; also "Bt is toxic" by Joe Cummins and Mae-Wan Ho, ISIS News 7/8, February 2001, ISSN: 1474-1547 (print), ISSN: 1474-1814 (online) http://www.i-sis.org.uk/isisnews.php Agricultural Biotechnology 2006, www.ISAAA.org).

9) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration had data dating back to early 1990s showing that rats fed GM tomatoes with antisense gene to delay ripening had developed small holes in their stomachs (Pusztai A, Bardocz S and Ewen SWB. Genetically modified foods: Potential human health effects. In Food Safety: Contaminants and Toxins, (J P F D'Mello ed.), Scottish Agricultural College, Edinburgh, CAB International, 2003).

10) In 2002, Aventis company (later Bayer Cropscience) submitted data to UK regulators showing that chickens fed glufosinate-tolerant GM corn Chardon LL were twice as likely to die compared with controls (Food Safety: Contaminants and Toxins (CABI Publishing 2003 also Novotny E. Animals avoid GM food, for good reasons. Science in Society 21, 9-11, 2004).

11) Testing by Monsanto itself has found that rats eating GM maize (MON863) develop smaller kidneys and show startling changes in blood chemistry. One blood change included an increase in white blood cell count which demonstrates that the GM food elicited an immune reaction by the body.

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