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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 USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) for the federal regulation of biotechnology products.
APHIS has been inviting such comments, even holding web-based hearings, since last March as it withdrew work to update its 1990s rule for regulating GE organisms and decided to start over with a blank slate.
Yesterday was the deadline for providing written comments. APHIS also conducted a series of webinars in May. Still, it does not look like the whole exercise is generating much interest with fewer than 200 comments submitted by yesterday’s cutoff.
Monday’s letter, which included some food company signatures as well as those from organizations, called for APHIS to “regulate biotechnology based process, not product.” The letter also called for adding noxious...
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