They mandated labels on furniture that alert buyers of the presence of flame retardants.
However, the measure, which would have mandated labeling of foods containing genetically engineered ingredients, garnered more than 6 million votes, and was actually a great case of "losing forward".
2 7 15 16 For these reasons, in February 2012 the United States Food and Drug Administration mandated labeling changes for all statins except pravastatin.
The US Food and Drug Administration FDAA) mandated labelling for hormone products for postmenopausal women now contains warnings that grapefruit juice may increase plasma concentrations of oestrogen (US Food and Drug Administration, 2006).
Support for the hypothesis among women taking HT was provided by the warning in FDA mandated labelling of menopausal HT products that grapefruit juice may increase plasma concentrations of oestrogens.
Over a million have signed petitions urging the federal Food and Drug Administration FDAA), which oversees national food-labelling rules, to mandate labelling of GM food.
Yet a million people signed a petition asking the F.D.A. to mandate labeling of G.M.O.
Similarly, only the state can control zoning laws that would restrict some restaurants and favor others or mandate labeling of seeds that would force what proponents of the bill call "an organic agenda".
Labeling bills have been proposed in more than a dozen states over the last year, and an appeal to the Food and Drug Administration last fall to mandate labels nationally drew more than a million signatures.
Glyphosate residue concerns helped drive Vermont to pass a law mandating labeling of GMO foods, which is set to take effect July 1.
Most of the discussion centered on ballot measure battles to mandate labeling (which have failed in California and Washington but are coming up in Oregon and other places), rather than on the science of genetic engineering.
