据美国食品安全新闻网消息，3月21日美国夏威夷州转基因标识法案以50:1的方式成功赢得参议院听证会，然而该法案能否最终获得通过目前尚不明朗。
报道称，美国参议院几乎要取消听证会，因为按照参议院的要求，只有夏威夷州之外的转基因食品需要加注GMO标识。
部分原文报道如下：
It got a final 50-to-1 favorable vote in the Hawaii House, but House Bill （HB） 174 could not have taken a more tumultuous road to today's public hearing in the Senate. And its future remains very much in doubt.
The Senate almost skipped the hearing entirely, which would have killed the proposed law to require genetically engineered food not raised in Hawaii to be labeled as such.
In between, an outspoken pro-labeling activist used a geographic version of a racial epithet rarely heard in public debate on the islands against the man she believed was blocking the bill from getting a hearing.
Jessica Mitchell recorded a phone message for state Sen. Clarence Nishihara, who chairs the Senate Agriculture Committee, in which the activist said the Senator of Japanese ancestry should "go back to Japan" and "mess things up" there.
原文链接：<http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2013/03/after-it-got-ugly-gm-food-bill-in-hawaii-gets-senate-hearing-today/>
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