Argument: Cost of labeling GM foods are exaggerated by opponents

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“Report Shows Cost to Label Genetically Engineered Food is Overblown.” Organic Consumers Association. March 19, 2007: “Mandatory labeling of genetically modified foods would cost much less than the food industry has claimed, a new study commissioned by Quebec’s Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food reveals. […] The as-yet-unpublished study, obtained by The Gazette, estimates the yearly cost of such a program at Cdn$28 million (US$23.8 million) to Quebec’s food industry and Cdn$1.7 million ($1.4 million) to the provincial government. […] Previous studies commissioned by the food industry – and cited by the federal and Quebec governments as reason not to act on the issue – pegged the annual cost of implementing such a system at up to Cdn$950 million ($807.7 million) (both government and industry) for the whole country, and up to Cdn$200 million ($170 million) in Quebec alone.”