7 CFR 66.5
§ 66.5 Exemptions.
United States · 7 CFR — Agriculture · Status: effective
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- 7 CFR 66.5, § 66.5 Exemptions, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/16537
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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.
Legislative history
This is a federal regulation, adopted through agency rulemaking under the Administrative Procedure Act — not enacted by a recorded vote of Congress.