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Federal agencies join efforts for electronic home for biotech regs

By News Desk on January 10, 2020

The U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Environmental Protection Agency Thursday launched a unified website for biotechnology regulation. The agencies timed the rollout to coincide with January 2020’s observance…
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New Executive Order to fast track agricultural technology applications

By Dan Flynn on June 18, 2019

The reaction was somewhat muted to the new “regulatory framework” for agricultural biotechnology products announced last week by the White House and USDA.

The big agriculture organizations and biotech industry did, of course, quickly praise…
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Oyster research could lead to food safety strategies

By Cookson Beecher on March 28, 2016

Microbes battling microbes. This type of warfare is happening all around us — and even inside of us — every day. And as in every battle, there are good microbes and bad microbes, depending on…
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Organic Industry Wants Biotechnology Regulated By Process, Not Product

By Dan Flynn on June 23, 2015

About 40 activist organizations that usually can be counted upon to rally with the organic industry against genetically engineered (GE) plants and animals did just that on Monday. They weighed in with a letter to…
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Plant Biotechnology Industry Rolls Out Site to Address Top Consumer Questions

By Dan Flynn on March 20, 2014

The plant biotechnology industry, which, until now, treated those who questioned genetically engineered plants as unwashed Luddites who weren’t worth anyone’s time or attention, is well into a new approach. Through GMO Answers, an…
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How Grassroots Advocates Beat the Biotech and Food Lobbies

By Michele Simon on June 5, 2013

This week, Connecticut won the honor of becoming the first state to pass a law requiring genetically engineered foods to be labeled. (The governor has indicated he will sign.) It was really only a matter…
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Monsanto Teams Up with Congress to Shred the Constitution

By Michele Simon on March 26, 2013

Our founding fathers, white maleness aside, did get a few things right. One of them was the concept of “separation of powers,” which ensures a system of checks and balances among the three branches of…
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AC21 Report Won’t Drop Until After Election

By Dan Flynn on August 31, 2012

Possibly more important in the long run than California’s vote on whether genetically modified foods should be labeled–which might not pass muster with federal courts anyway–will be the recommendations of USDA’s Advisory Committee on Biotechnology …
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Research Could Lead to E. coli O104 Treatments

By James Andrews on August 3, 2012

Last year’s German E. coli outbreak made headlines around the world in May and June as it sickened nearly 3,800 people and killed 50, distinguishing it as the single deadliest foodborne illness outbreak of all…
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Biotech Riders in Proposed Farm Bill Stir Controversy

By Cookson Beecher on July 13, 2012

It was a battle over agricultural biotechnology that didn’t happen — at least not in the House Agriculture Committee’s July 11 markup of its version of the proposed new Farm Bill. After a long day…
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