In the short term the answer is NO, says Tony Pavel, a partner at law firm Morgan Lewis & Bockius.
However, it does now seem increasingly likely that we might get an answer in the next couple of years or so, said Pavel, who caught up with FoodNavigator-USA at the IFT show.
“I think in the next one to three years we’ll see a piece of legislation [on GMO labeling] that has legs and FDA will be forced into making some kind of definition... which no one will be perfectly happy with, but a compromise has to be found. I fully understand consumers’ right to know, but there is no safety, no material difference…
“At some point, you can’t keep getting sued over label claims that don’t have a substantive bearing on the food.”