date:Nov 06, 2012
most important potential risks. USDA's regulation is based on the premise that engineered crops could become potential 'plant pests', but no reputable scientist believes adding one new gene to a corn variety could turn that crop into a plant pest, wrote Gregory Jaffe, CSPI's director of the biotechnology project, in a Nov. 2 letter to some lawmakers with oversight over the House Committee on Agriculture.
Instead, Congress should write legislation that would give USDA explicit authority to regul