On behalf of the retail and wholesale members of the Food Marketing Institute (FMI), we appreciate the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service’s (AMS) consideration of our comments regarding the National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard (NBFDS) proposed rule. FMI is proud to participate in the Coalition for Safe, Affordable Food (“Coalition”) and to be associated with the comments submitted by the Coalition; however, we submit these comments to further clarify some of the most significant issues from the retail and wholesale perspective. We appreciate the opportunity to comment on the proposed rule and look forward to working with AMS, and encourage the Administration to continue to act prudently but expeditiously to promulgate a final rule. Additionally, as noted in our comments, economic impact studies and consumer feedback confirm that a single national standard is far preferable to a state-by-state approach both in the eyes of our customers as well as to achieve much-needed supply chain efficiencies.