This TWN Biosafety Briefing evaluates the impact of genetic engineering in the US on three important challenges to agriculture: increasing food productivity, increasing nitrogen use efficiency, and increasing drought tolerance. […]
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The USDA will produce an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for GE crops resistant to the herbicides 2,4-D or dicamba. Critics maintain that even with the EIS, the USDA’s regulation of GE crops is extremely weak. […] Peruvian President Ollanta Humala and Congress have heared the cries of Peruvian farmers and have banned GMOs for ten years. […] Collabation between regulators and biotech firms could eliminate a critical level of oversight for the production of GE crops. […] The USDA will not regulate both Scotts GE Kentucky bluegrass and its conventional variety. […] A series of briefings examining a number of US court cases on the legality of the authorisation of GM crops, while exposing how regulators have disregard the law and the precautionary principle. […] Concerns raised regarding a clause in a US bill which stipulates that foreign aid dollars should be directed to the development of GMOs. […] Over 100 groups and experts petitioned the US Senate to remove GM clause in the “Global Food Security Act”. […] In a string of recent cases, the Center for Food Safety and others have won hard-fought victories in federal court. […] The paper evaluates the approach put forward by the USDA that a ban is not necessary if food risk is assessed and the necessary measures are taken. […] |
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