Regulations last checked for updates: May 20, 2024

Title 7 - Agriculture last revised: Nov 16, 2024
§ 66.5 - Exemptions.

This part shall not apply to the food and entities described in this section.

(a) Food served in a restaurant or similar retail food establishment.

(b) Very small food manufacturers.

(c) A food in which no ingredient intentionally contains a bioengineered (BE) substance, with an allowance for inadvertent or technically unavoidable BE presence of up to five percent (5%) for each ingredient.

(d) A food derived from an animal shall not be considered a bioengineered food solely because the animal consumed feed produced from, containing, or consisting of a bioengineered substance.

(e) Food certified under the National Organic Program.

authority: 7 U.S.C. 1621
source: 83 FR 65871, Dec. 21, 2018, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 7 CFR 66.5