This is not a new issue. During the 1990s, I served on something called Trade and the Environment Policy Advisory Committee for the USTR where European labeling of genetically engineered foods was starting to surface as an issue in terms of a trade barrier.
Heitkamp discusses the historical context of labeling genetically engineered foods as a trade issue.
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