Dive Summary:

• Last month, a bill was introduced on the New Mexico Senate floor, attempting to mandate the labeling of foods that contain GMOs.
• It passed the committee stage last Tuesday, but was then voted down in the general Senate on Thursday, suffering an end as California's Prop 37 also did last year.
• Many of the bill's proponents are blaming the intensive lobbying by large agri-business parties in the last few weeks, affecting the vote.

From the article:

Supporters of a New Mexico Senate bill proposing mandatory labeling for genetically engineered food and feed say they are disappointed it died on the Senate floor last week, but remain confident that other states’ GMO labeling initiatives will succeed.

The bill (SB18), sponsored by Sen. Peter Wirth (D-Santa Fe), proposed that products containing more than 1% by weight of a genetically modified material would need to be labeled, and had strong support from members of the public, claimed Eleanor Bravo, New Mexico organizer at advocacy group Food & Water Watch.