Forum To Review the Biotechnology Product Regulatory Approval Process

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Administrative law.

Agriculture and state.

Farm produce.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Contained In:

ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection

Place of Publication:

[United States] [publisher not identified] 2011

Summary:

BACKGROUND AND CONTEXT: USDA statutory authority to regulate plant-based products of agricultural biotechnology has run into increasingly troublesome delays. Activist organizations have successfully sued USDA under the National Environmental Policy Act, despite repeated conclusions that individual applications of biotechnology do not pose plant pest risks

correspondence and witness's written replies to Committee questions

Transcript of meeting to review the regulatory approval process for agricultural biotechnology products

Views on USDA biotechnology regulatory program and challenges facing biotechnology review process; review of glyphosate-tolerant alfalfa regulatory status and litigation over biotechnology product approvals

Notes:

Print

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Microfiche version United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Forum To Review the Biotechnology Product Regulatory Approval Process. 2011 H162-6

Publisher Number:

CMP-2011-HAG-0001

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