Instead, GMOs are managed relative to health, safety, and environmental legislation (Acosta, 2015). According to Luis Acosta, a Legal Information Analyst in the Public Services Division of the Law Library of Congress, the United States’s approach to limiting GMOs focuses on the origin of the products, instead of the methods used to produce them. In comparison to other countries, regulations regarding GMOs are in favor of their production, most likely relating to their significant impact on the economy of the U.S. (Acosta, 2015). However, as pointed out by Kenneth Noga, a managing editor of the Vermont Law Review, some counties in states like California, Washington, Oregon, and Hawaii, have put legislation in place to limit the use of GMOs. For example, in California, Mendocino, Marin, and Trinity Counties have all put laws into effect that prohibit the use of GMOs altogether (Noga,…