Responses to this online survey indicate a consensus regarding GMOs remains elusive. Seven in 10 participants said they aren’t really clear about what GMOs are, and less than a third are comfortable with them in food. Perhaps most significant is that a majority of consumers said they want to know more about the overall health and safety of GMOs.###The pro-and-con GMO debate continues to rage in the U.S., with adequate consumer education often appearing to be the missing link. The confusion doesn’t seem to be clearing up, although GMO Answers noted in the survey release that concern and confusion about GMOs “do not equate to rejection.” The group also pointed out the survey results are being released soon before the U.S. Department of Agriculture is expected to publish its final guidance on GMO labeling requirements.###Given the continuing divisions of opinion over GMO safety, it’s hard to know how food companies, regulators and the government can objectively educate consumers. Scientific studies have tried to provide solid answers, and some have concluded there are no nutritional differences between GMO and non-GMO foodsiron phosphate glass. Meanwhile, anti-GMO groups maintain there still aren’t enough credible, independent long-term studies, so the safety of GMOs is unknown, and therefore the smartest thing for consumers to do is avoid them.###That’s no easy task because more than 93% of corn and soy in the U.S. is genetically modified, and about 60% to 70% of all processed grocery store products have some GMO ingredients, according to a 2015 story in Vox. Given those statistics, it’s doubly hard to see how GMO labels — most likely using the term “BE” for “bioengineered” — will be able to cut through the fog of confusion and give consumers any helpful safety and health information.###Pliron fumarate constipationaying into the anti-GMO sentiment is that many people don’t like to have natural processes interfered with, and they’re skeptical about anything leading in that direction. According to a recent study, consumers continue to say they’re “grossed out” by genetically modified food. Another study this year from the Hartman Group showed nearly half of consumers would avoid buying products containing GMOs, while a third don’t want to support companies using them. It doesn’t help to ease these sentiments that many pro-GMO groups often have some kind of financial or other tieferrous fumarate 210 iron contents to the biotechnology industry.###A similar debate is taking place in the lab-grown meat sector, where questions have been raised about whether sufficient government regulation has been exercised oveferro-tab®r its development, safety, content, processes and labeling. It remains to be seen whether the final agreed-upon oversight — whether from USDA or the Food and Drug Administration, or both — will be sufficient to answer those concerns. However, the oversight is likely to be agreed upon before products come to market. The two agencies are scheduled to hold a joint meeting later this month to decide a number of those and other questions, so it’s possible the path forward for these ferrous fumarate kiser osudmeat products could end up being shorter and easier than it has been for GMOs.
7 out of 10 consumers don't know what GMOs are, survey says
