FDA Eliminates 1 Million Signatures for GMO Labeling on 'Technical' Reasons

Posted By Dr. Mercola | March 29 2012

In another brazen example of how the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) totally ignores the very people it's supposed to listen to and protect, this rogue agency has decided that over a million U.S. citizens' signatures and comments count for nothing. NOTHING. That's the results of a campaign spearheaded by the Just Label It group to urge the agency to label genetically modified foods.

Organizers of the campaign said they gathered more than 1 million signatures of people who want to know what's in the foods they're eating. But the whole effort was basically thrown out the window when the FDA decided that signatures on form letters don't count. Therefore, under the FDA counting method, the 1 million signatures have been whittled down to a whopping 394. According to the Chicago Tribune:

The agency says that if 35,000 people, for instance, sign their name to the same form letter it only counts as one person or "comment." And if tens of thousands sign a petition, they are only counted as one "comment," too.

The FDA says it's still considering the issue, and that they would let the Just Label It group know if, and when, they made a decision on whether they would mandate GM food labeling.