Following the release of a study from the Center for Food Safety reported in Friday’s Statesman Journal in Salem, Ore., the American Soybean Association has released a statement on the safety of soy-based infant formula, and the tactics used by the activist special interest group CFS in the fight over GMO labeling in Oregon.

“Unfortunately, the dialogue from anti-technology activists and special interest groups like the Center for Food Safety continues to devolve. This time, the victim is science. CFS uses pseudoscience to try to needlessly scare parents away from foods that provide valuable protein to their children. In doing so, they place the health of Oregon children at risk, all in the name of winning votes for an upcoming ballot initiative to label GMOs.

”The CFS ‘study’ found that soy infant formula contains soy.  That should not be shocking news, but what is shocking is the inaccurate information the CFS gave about soy that is genetically modified.  There is a mountain of peer-reviewed science backing the safety of food with genetically modified ingredients. Nearly two decades and trillions of meals have been served globally since the advent of this technology without a single adverse health impact. The world’s esteemed food and health organizations and regulatory bodies—including The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the American Medical Association, the World Health Organization and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations—have repeatedly affirmed the safety of foods with GM ingredients, as has a unanimous scientific community.

“More than 95 percent of the nation’s soybeans are grown with the benefits of genetic modification. Farmers use this technology because it enables us to grow the soy that American consumers demand for their families, while using fewer natural resources and achieving the sustainable production practices that American consumers demand of us.

“It is irresponsible for special interest groups to suggest safety concerns, directly or by innuendo, about products containing GM soy ingredients. In this case, the CFS has chosen to play politics with children’s health, all in the name of votes.”