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BOULDER – A trio of food industry heavyweights associated with the Boulder-based Organic Center have written “Label It Now,” a book about genetically modified foods.

Charles Benbrook, chief scientist at the Organic Center, a nonprofit industry research and trade group; Garry Hirshberg, chief executive of Stonyfield Farm Inc.; and Britt Lundgren, director of sustainable agriculture at Stonyfield, wrote the book.

Stonyfield is based in Londonderry, New Hampshire, and has partnered with the Organic Center on a variety of programs.

Debate has intensified about whether genetically modified food is harmful to human health. Locally, Boulder County commissioners voted recently to allow some genetically modified organisms to be grown on open space land owned by the county and leased to farmers.

“Label It Now” advocates that all food be labeled, because, “We all have a right to know what’s in our food,” according to information on the book’s marketing site. The book was released Tuesday, Jan. 3.

“I think it is fair to say that the public health impacts of both genetic modification of the plants themselves and the heightened reliance and use of the particular herbicide – in this case glyphospate – has not been researched as carefully as it should have been,” Benbrook said, adding that he doesn’t see evidence that proves genetically modified foods create “the kind of dire impacts that some people fear are occurring.”