A couple of assorted comments:
Cost of labelling: The practice of Kosher certification, which now applies to most commodity packaged foods, can provide a guide as to the overhead incurred by GMO labelling.
Monitoring: Widespread testing should not be necessary. It should be sufficient to not that the end product contains ingredients that originated on a farm using GMO. Farms using GMO seeds know they are using GMO and can declare themselves as such. It is not necessary to chase down nebulous cases of contamination in order to simply tell folks what they're getting and where it comes from.
Problems with GMO: The anti-labelling proponents quoted appear to focus on the lack of any harmful differences in the end product. To my mind, there's a far greater problem with GMO, and that is one of the associated business practices: The widespread conversion of agriculture to use sterile "terminator seeds", which presents risk by adding a significant point-of-failure in the world's food supply.
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