The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA)—the world’s largest trade association for food, beverages and consumer products—has issued a road map to its member companies on how to comply with Vermont’s precedent-setting law that requires the labeling of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), even though the powerful organization has heavily lobbied and spent eye-popping sums to fight state-by-state labeling mandates, according to Ecowatch.com.
The GMA, which represents more than 300 food and beverage titans such as ConAgra, Nestlé, Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Kellogg and Hershey, has posted on its website a 6-page, 29-point FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) document in order “to respond to questions that companies have about compliance with the Vermont law,” Roger Lowe, the executive vice president of GMA’s strategic communications, told EcoWatch in an email.
In the document, the GMA offers guidelines for its companies on how to comply with Vermont’s label law set to take effect July 1, 2016, even though the GMA has slapped lawsuits on the state to block the labeling law, and has lobbied against mandatory labels at the state and federal level.
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