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Committee clears bill to classify some genetically modified food products as drugs; amendment narrows scope to plants
Summary
Senate Bill 255 would classify food intentionally modified to produce an immune response as a drug rather than food; sponsor amended the measure in committee to exclude meat and other animals after industry and agency concerns.
The Senate Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee gave Senate Bill 255 a favorable recommendation as amended after the sponsor and agency staff described the proposal and accepted adjustments intended to address livestock and poultry industry concerns.
Senator Penzo presented the bill as an effort to clarify how emerging biotechnology should be treated under state law. "All this bill does is state that if these pharmaceutical companies and researchers wanna develop plants that are producing these virus like proteins... they would fall under the…
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