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A Consumer Reports poll indicates that 92 percent of Americans
want to know where their meat originates in light of recent
domestic food scares involving peanut butter and lettuce.
"I was definitely shocked at how high these numbers were,"
the study's co-author, Dr. Urvashi Rangan, a senior scientist
and policy analyst at Consumers Union, publisher of CR ,
told Reuters .
"It's much like a nutrition label or an ingredient label
in that it needs to be part of the general information coming
in about imported foods," she added.
CR polled more than 1,000 consumers between June 7 and June
10. The results come as USDA continues accepting public
comment on its country-of-origin labeling measure, and as
consumer and producer groups express concern over recent
food-safety snafus involving pet food and other products
from China.
American Meat Institute President J. Patrick Boyle said
the survey results "underscore the value of the existing
mandatory country-of-origin labeling rules for imported
meat and poultry enforced by USDA."
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