>...I just think that GMO cultivars should be required to be identified the way chemicals are, and meet similar safety standards to other food additives. This

>...I just think that GMO cultivars should be required to be identified the way chemicals are, and meet similar safety standards to other food additives. This idea that GMOs are unregulated is a myth. If someone wants to argue for more testing, that is one thing, but in doing a simple google search it is easy to see that there is certainly oversight: >...The three main agencies involved in regulating GMOs are the US Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). >...APHIS regulates the planting, importation, or transportation of GM plants pursuant to its authority under the Plant Protection Act (PPA),[23] which authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to “prohibit or restrict the importation, entry, exportation, or movement in interstate commerce of any plant, plant product [etc.] if the Secretary determines [it] is necessary to prevent the introduction . . . of a plant pest or noxious weed within the United States.”[24] By regulation, APHIS classifies most GM plants as plant pests or potential plant pests and as “regulated articles.”[25] Under the PPA, a regulated article must receive prior approval from APHIS before it is introduced.[26] >APHIS grants authorization to use GM plants in three ways: through a notification process, a permitting process, or a determination of nonregulated status. >...In a 1992 policy statement, the FDA reaffirmed that in most cases it would treat foods derived from GMOs like those derived from conventionally bred plants, and that most foods derived from GM plants would be presumptively GRAS. However, with respect to a GMO product “that differs significantly in structure, function, or composition from substances found currently in food,” premarket approval of the substance as a food additive would be required.[47] >...The EPA regulates pesticides and microorganisms developed through genetic engineering. https://www.loc.gov/law/help/restrictions-on-gmos/usa.php https://www.loc.gov/law/help/restrictions-on-gmos/usa.php