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FDA Completes Review of GE Canola Seeds After Response to Last Year’s Inadvertent Release

Posted on April 11, 2022
  •  Plants produced through genetic engineering (GE) are subject to the same FDA safety standards as other plants.  Given the possibility for food from some GE plants to have new allergens,

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Release by FDA, USDA, and EPA of New Joint Website on Biotechnology Regulation

Posted on January 13, 2020

 

  • The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) launched a Unified Website for Biotechnology Regulation on January 9, 2020. 

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FDA Holds Ground in Challenge over GE Animal Regulatory Authority

Posted on July 12, 2019
  • As previously reported on this blog, on June 11, the President issued Executive Order Modernizing the Regulatory Framework for Agricultural Biotechnology Products, ensuring coordination across federal regulatory agencies

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FDA Promotes Programs for Safe Use of Biotechnology

Posted on March 22, 2019
  • Drs. Susan Mayne, head of the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN), and Dennis Keefe (head of CFSAN’s Office of Food Additive Safety)

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FDA Announces Plant and Animal Biotechnology Innovation Action Plan

Posted on October 31, 2018
  • In an October 30 press release, FDA announced their new Plant and Animal Biotechnology Innovation Action Plan in an effort to foster advances in the field as new technologies

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USDA Withdraws Biotech Regulation Proposal

Posted on November 9, 2017
  • As previously covered on this blog, on January 19, 2017, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)published a proposed rule to update

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FDA Announces November 2017 Public Meetings Concerning Its Agricultural Biotechnology Education and Outreach Initiative

Posted on October 12, 2017
  • On April 18, 2017, as the House Committee on Appropriations marked up the FY 2017 agriculture spending bill, more than 65 agriculture and food industry groups sent a letter to

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