https://www.nongmoproject.org/blog/what-is-bioengineered-food/

The BE labeling law is VERY sneaky; see excerpts below.

Comment about today's food marketplace (not BE in particular) from an Anon whose handle I don't recall:

"If you don't want to eat poison, grow your own food."

from August, 2021:

On January 1, 2022, the federal Bioengineered (BE) Food labeling law will take full effect. Under the BE labeling law, certain food products that are made with GMOs will require a disclosure of bioengineered ingredients.

. . . Bioengineered, or "BE" for short, is the federal government's new term for GMOs. Under the Bioengineered Food labeling law, certain BE foods containing detectable modified genetic material must disclose the presence of BE ingredients.

The clause "detectible modified genetic material" is crucial because it excuses many products that are made with GMOs from making the disclosure. Many products made with new GMO techniques such as CRISPR, TALEN and RNAi are currently untestable. Without a commercially available test, the modified genetic material is undetectable and thus those foods wouldn’t require a BE label.

Additionally, many processed foods contain highly refined ingredients made from GMOs. The processing often leaves no detectable modified genetic material behind in the final product, and therefore those products also will not require labels. Common household products that contain ingredients such as sugar made from GMO sugar beets or cooking oil made from GMO canola would fall into this category.

Which bioengineered foods will be labeled — and which won't? Certain food (i.e., not ALL foods) containing detectable modified genetic material will require a Bioengineered (BE) Food disclosure. The USDA’s current List of Bioengineered Foods includes:

• Alfalfa
• Arctic™ Apple
• Canola
• Corn
• Cotton
• Bt Eggplant
• Ringspot virus-resistant Papaya
• Pink Pineapple
• Potato
• AquAdvantage® Salmon
• Soybean
• Summer squash
• Sugarbeet

This list determines which foods are considered bioengineered in their most basic, raw form. However, the way the BE law is written — with exemptions, loopholes and technical limitations — many products made from these bioengineered ingredients will not require a disclosure.

• Animal feed, pet food and personal care products are all exempt from the BE labeling law.
• Some foods for direct human consumption are also exempt, such as meat, poultry and eggs. (Seriously: MEAT, POULTRY, AND EGGS are EXEMPT from disclosure)
• Multi-ingredient products in which meat, poultry or eggs are the first ingredient listed are exempt even if other ingredients with detectable modified genetic material are included in the product.