Senate lawmakers struggling to reach a deal on how to label food containing genetically modified ingredients said Thursday they are making progress, but acknowledged time is running out before Vermont's first-in-the-nation labeling law takes effect next month.

 

Congress has only six working days before July 1, when Vermont begins requiring that all foods containing genetically modified products be labeled. Any bill approved by the Senate would have to clear the House, which is in recess the last week of June.

 

“We are still negotiating, and I think we’re getting much closer,” Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan., told reporters. “We have to act. We can’t allow this to happen on the first of July with the Vermont labeling law.”

 

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