---
kind: "section"
citation: "7 C.F.R. § 66.5"
title: "7"
number: "66.5"
heading: "Exemptions."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/7/66.5"
---

# §66.5. Exemptions.


This part shall not apply to the food and entities described in this section.

- (a) **Food served in a restaurant or similar retail food establishment.**
- (b) **Very small food manufacturers.**
- (c) A food in which no ingredient intentionally contains a bioengineered (BE) substance, with an allowance for inadvertent or technically unavoidable BE presence of up to five percent (5%) for each ingredient.
- (d) A food derived from an animal shall not be considered a bioengineered food solely because the animal consumed feed produced from, containing, or consisting of a bioengineered substance.
- (e) **Food certified under the National Organic Program.**

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 1621 et seq.

### Source

Source: 83 FR 65871, Dec. 21, 2018, unless otherwise noted.