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
Continue Reading Federal agencies join efforts for electronic home for biotech regs
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
Continue Reading New Executive Order to fast track agricultural technology applications
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
Continue Reading Oyster research could lead to food safety strategies
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
Continue Reading Organic Industry Wants Biotechnology Regulated By Process, Not Product
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
Continue Reading Plant Biotechnology Industry Rolls Out Site to Address Top Consumer Questions
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
Continue Reading How Grassroots Advocates Beat the Biotech and Food Lobbies
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
Continue Reading Monsanto Teams Up with Congress to Shred the Constitution
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
Continue Reading AC21 Report Won’t Drop Until After Election
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
Continue Reading Research Could Lead to E. coli O104 Treatments
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
Continue Reading Biotech Riders in Proposed Farm Bill Stir Controversy
