Since 2008, California Family Foods (CFF) has supported the California Rice Commission's initiatives to keep California rice Liberty Link GMO-free.

Procedures were put in place to protect the California Rice Industry against Liberty Link GMO contamination. The California Rice Industry has come together to work on solutions, procedures and protocols to protect California inventories from the inadvertent contamination of our stocks. The California Rice Commission (CRC) has undertaken an effort to modernize its GMO policy in light of the Liberty Link GMO contamination events in the South. The regulatory Advisory Committee, formed through the passage of the California Rice Certification Act of 2000 (AB 2622), has undertaken steps to protect the industry through comprehensive agronomic and handling protocols to insure separation of research plots from commercial production regions and the testing of all seed from the Liberty Link GMO with CRC assistance and financial support.

You may also be interested in viewing documentation regarding the California Rice Commission's rice testing results:

2010 CRC Verification of CFF Rice Seed Results
(1 page PDF format)

2010 CRC Verification of California Rice Seed Results
(1 page PDF format)

California Family Foods requires growers to provide documentation that their seed stock has been tested for Liberty Link GMO:

2009 Liberty Link GMO Letter to Growers from Dave Lohman, CFF Grower Accountant
(1 page PDF format)

Crop testing is performed annually. For further verification questions, please contact us and ask to speak to Dave Lohman in the Grower Accounting Department.