31.  The key difference is that food producers must provide safety test data to show there will be no allergic effects from bioengineered food.

32.  The new guidelines require producers to notify the FDA at least four months in advance of plans to put any bioengineered food on supermarket shelves.

33.  The tests were conducted for the coalition by Genetic ID, a testing company in Fairfield, Iowa, that was started by a prominent critic of bioengineered foods.

34.  The World Trade Organization conducts a working group on bioengineered foods as some countries debate trade restrictions to prevent importation of genetically altered American crops.

35.  To build support for this compromise effort, the State Department asked environmental and consumer opponents of bioengineered foods to nominate their representatives to the biotech powwow.

36.  Participants can tell FDA whether they want its food-safety policy strengthened or bioengineered foods labeled.

37.  Buoyed by a backlash in Europe and elsewhere, U.S. critics have increased demands that bioengineered foods be labeled here.

38.  Consumers and several EU countries have expressed concern about the public health and environmental consequences of the bioengineered food.

39.  Developers of the bioengineered food insist consumers face no health risks.

40.  The federal agency that ensures genetically engineered foods are safe will hold unusual meetings around the country this fall to hear what Americans think about bioengineered food.