Russian government instates fines for violating GMO labeling regulations

The Russian government doesn’t buy into America’s genetically modified seed hype so easily. In fact, the Russian government takes a hard stance against the patented seeds, since some are spliced with bacteria to produce insecticide from within. When this kind of lab-manipulated food finds its way into the Russian marketplace, it must be evaluated, scrutinized and labeled appropriately. Current Russian laws require that foodstuffs with 0.9 percent GMO ingredients by weight be labeled accordingly, warning consumers of the transgenic material. There’s nothing wrong with questioning food products that come from a lab, which have never been proven safe long-term in the human population. Russians suspicions of the untested transgenic material are wise and have put them on a course of reducing their intake of genetically modified ingredients altogether. According to the Russian government, the proportion of GMOs in the Russian food industry had dropped significantly in the past decade from 12 percent to just 0.01 percent. Reportedly, the entire country has only 57 registered GMO food products available.
New Russian law would mandate labeling for all GMO products and instate fines Now, a new bill, drafted by the Russian state consumer rights agency Rospotrebnadzor, is looking to mandate labeling of any food product containing any amount of genetically modified ingredient. Under the new law, those who fail to properly label the GMO products they sell would be subject to fines from anywhere between $555 and $4,150. The improperly labeled food stock would then be confiscated and likely discarded by the government.

This post was published at Natural News on Saturday, August 30, 2014.