Some food manufacturing companies are putting a new term on their labels, “bioengineered food ingredients.”

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The definition

The definition of bioengineered food ingredients:
“Food that contains detectable genetic material that has been modified through certain lab techniques that cannot be created through conventional breeding or found in nature.”

Certain companies were concerned that their products would be labeled as GMO and that people would avoid them. So, they decided to develop a new term, “bioengineered food ingredients,” and gave it branding to make it appear healthy.

“Bioengineered food ingredients” is essentially another name for GMO. But, this new term now allows companies to bypass the GMO labeling problem they were having.

On top of that, once a product has been highly processed, the traces of GMO become undetectable, and the company no longer has to add the label stating it contains bioengineered food ingredients.

They also don’t necessarily have to use the term “bioengineered food ingredients.” Instead, they can use a QR code or a number to text or call to get more information.

 

What does bioengineered food mean?

bioengineered food ingredients

The definition of bioengineered food ingredients is this food that contains detectable genetic material that has been modified through certain lab techniques. That cannot be created through conventional breeding or found in nature.

Now a few years ago food manufacturing companies were a little concerned that GMOs were going to be labeled on their products because Vermont in a few other states passed laws that now had to label products with GMOs and just so you know GMOs are foods that they’ve altered the DNA genetics and food manufacturing companies were concerned that more and more states would legalize or pass laws to reveal what foods were genetically modified versus which ones weren’t.

So they had a very bright idea. They came up with a new term called bioengineered ingredients. It sounds different than GMO foods, the branding shows this wonderful sun on these great crops with this little plant growing. So it seems very very safe and healthy but bioengineer products are another name for GMOs it pretty much bypassed the GMO labeling. The problem that they had. Now, if we again look a little closer at the definition of bioengineered food ingredients it says food that contains detectable genetic material.

Okay, detectable. Here’s the problem when you process the food, especially when you alter the process.
The food like in 70 percent of all the refined foods out there this genetic material falls below the radar GMOs are not detectable in some of these ultra-fine products, because they’re using chemicals and high heat and pressure and solvents to break down these GMO products.

GMO labeling

So small that they’re undetected, so what does that means this similar that GMOs or different? It means that the more processing you do to a product, the more you can get rid of the traces of GMO so they don’t have to be labeled as bio-engineered food ingredients, whereas if they had GMO labeling.

If they came from a GMO product, they would have to put it on the label. So it’s an ingenious way to hide GMOs in products below the radar, and on top of that these companies don’t even have to use the term bioengineered food ingredients; they can instead. They can use either a QR code, that little barcode that gives a lot more information about the product than a little code that you have to scan with your cell phone, or a phone number that you’d have to call to get more information.

If this product was bio-engineered or not, so the question is who has time to scan this barcode or call the number and most customers probably 99% of all customers don’t have a clue of what the term bio-engineered food ingredients means. And now you know what it means.

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