A Wyoming legislative committee is set to consider a resolution endorsing genetically modified foods as safe and calling on Congress to specify that only federal agencies, not individual states, should regulate them.

The Joint Agriculture, State and Public Lands, and Water Resources Interim Committee is set to consider the resolution Monday in Afton.

Committee Co-chairman Republican Sen. Gerald Geis, of Worland, says the resolution would express support for a bill the U.S. House has passed that would prohibit states from requiring labels on genetically modified foods.

Many large food companies say genetically modified foods, such as sugar beets grown in Wyoming, Colorado and Montana, are safe and labels would be misleading. But some organic food producers say states should be allowed to require labels.

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