As food companies are preparing to comply with the Vermont GMO labeling law, many other states are now considering their own GMO labeling laws. Politico reports Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island are looking to implement their own GMO labeling statutes. Those bills largely mirror the Vermont law. Meanwhile, lawmakers in Maine passed a bill through the state’s House of Representatives that would ask voters to repeal a trigger clause in the state’s GMO labeling law, allowing the measure to go into effect. Legislators in Tennessee, Florida, Hawaii, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York and Oregon have also considered labeling laws this spring. Lawmakers in Alaska and Mississippi have considered restrictions on the sale and cultivation of GMO salmon. On the other side of the GMO battle, Kansas, Missouri and Wyoming lawmakers have looked at resolutions that would urge the U.S. Congress to block labeling.
States gaining interest in GMO labeling laws
