10. Department of Agriculture · Notable · Needs Congress
Repeal the federal GE food labeling mandate
Printed page 307 10. Department of Agriculture
“Repeal the federal labeling mandate. The USDA should work with Congress to repeal the federal labeling law, while maintaining federal preemption, and stress that voluntary labeling is allowed.”
What has happened
- Not started
The federal disclosure mandate is intact and is being rewritten to comply with a court order rather than repealed. No bill in the 119th Congress would repeal the National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard of Public Law 114-216; a Corpus bill-title search for "genetically engineered", "bioengineered", "GE food", "food labeling" and "disclosure standard" returns only the Food Labeling Modernization Act of 2026 (H.R. 8385 / S. 5166, both in committee), which would add labeling requirements. USDA is meanwhile working the standard forward: its 2026 Unified Agenda carries AMS RIN 0581-AE52, "National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard — Court Remand", to cure deficiencies the Ninth Circuit found in *Natural Grocers v. Rollins* on 2025-10-31, and RIN 0581-AE10 to update the list of bioengineered foods. Cluster K (agricultural biotechnology and GE labeling) in `docs/research/ch-10.md`, round 3 ticket 09 batch 09c, records the queries.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
- RIN 0581-AE52 is one of the few USDA RINs printed in the Federal Register’s abbreviated agenda (FR 2026-16604, 2026-08-14), listed under AMS proposed-rule stage.
- Natural Grocers v. Rollins (9th Cir., decision 2025-10-31) is named in the agenda entry; the opinion itself was not fetched and is a lead.
- The Mandate’s “maintain federal preemption” and “stress that voluntary labeling is allowed” limbs likewise have no in-window instrument.
- Action
- repeal
- Object
- federal genetically engineered food labeling law
- ID
- 797