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# GMO Labeling Bill So Bad Even the FDA Doesn't Like It
- URL: https://www.foodconsumer.org/gmo_labeling_bill_0630160604/
- Published: 2016-06-30T19:02:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-22T16:30:55.000Z
- Description: The FDA told Congress the Roberts-Stabenow GMO labeling bill would exempt common ingredients such as soybean oil and sugar beets and sets a high bar for even its QR-code disclosures. The Organic Consumers Association notes the Senate still advanced the bill 68-29.
- Author: Food Consumer
- Tags: Politics, #vivvo-import

You know things are bad when even the FDA, which so often fails the public when it comes to food safety, sides with consumers.

**Yesterday, the FDA pointed out what DARK Act opponents have been saying all along—the Roberts-Stabenow GMO “non-labeling” bill would exclude a host of products from ever having to be labeled, including some of the most common GMO ingredients, like soybean oil and GMO sugar beets.**

According to the FDA, the bill also sets **a very high bar** for even the bill's "make believe" labels (QR codes and toll-free phone numbers), because it would apply only to those GMO crops "for which the modification could not otherwise be obtained through conventional breeding or found in nature." 

**Yet the FDA’s critique has done nothing to slow down the anti-labeling train**.

And we have only a few days left to keep that train from taking us over the cliff.

**The U.S. Senate yesterday held a “test vote” on whether or not to push forward by limiting debate on the Stabenow-Roberts DARK Act**.

The motion passed—68-29.

**Our job is to work relentlessly over the next few days so that when the Senate holds an official vote early next week, this outrageous anti-consumer, pro-Monsanto bill fails. For good.**

Despite the lies, this bill gives Monsanto and Big Food everything they want—and **gives consumers nothing**.

The Roberts-Stabenow DARK Act calls for a convoluted, costly, discriminatory scheme of barcodes and phone numbers—***but no labels.***

This bill is **not a mandatory labeling law**—because there’s no enforcement mechanism, and *no penalties or consequences of any kind* for defying the “law.”

This bill, as even the FDA confirmed yesterday, is so full of loopholes and exemptions that **only the barest minimum of products** would meet the standard.

**With your help, we are working 24/7 to prevent this attack on consumer rights, states’ rights and democracy from passing.**

Meanwhile, I urge you to **call your Senators** and remind them that even the FDA doesn’t believe this bill provides consumers with the right to know if their food is GMO.

**And finally, because our opposition is so well-funded and our work is not only urgent, but requires funding, I ask that you please help us raise another $30,000 by midnight tonight, in order to take advantage of a generous matching funds offer by our ally in this fight, Mercola.com.**[**If you can pitch in, please click here for details on how to donate online, or by phone or mail.**](http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=bu2VAI7RpCxvYQ%2BiGVrvcPF3M%2FFBDzN%2F&ref=foodconsumer.org)

Thank you!

In solidarity,

Ronnie Cummins  
International Director

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