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Appropriate oversight for plants with inherited traits for resistance to pests : A Scientific Review of a Policy Proposed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. A Report from 11 Professional Scientific Societies (Institute of Food Technologists).
| Cook R.J., Qualset, C.O. (1996).
| Oversight for the safety of food, including food from new plant varieties developed by recombinant DNA (rDNA) techniques (genetic engineering), is provided by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Similarly, oversight for protection of the environment from the release of plants genetically modified by rDNA techniques is provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Oversight for the safety of food, including food from new plant varieties developed through genetic engineering, is provided by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Similarly, oversight for protection of the environment from the release of plants genetically modifiedis provided by the USDA., To complement and extend this regulatory framework, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed, to regulate the inherited traits of plants that confer resistance to pests under statutes developed for chemical pesticides. Based on this proposal, the substances produced by plants for their defense against pests and diseases, together with the necessary genes for production of these substances, would fall under a new category of pesticide termed "plant-pesticide" ., Concern among plant, food and microbiological scientists for the scientific basis and unnecessary regulatory burdens of this proposed policy was so great that a consortium of scientific societies convened a group of scientists to examine the scientific basis of the proposed rule and develop principles for appropriate oversight of the inherited traits in plants for resistance to pests and diseases. , The consortium supports the conclusions of independent studies by the National Academy of Sciences published in 1987 and 1989, which state that any risk associated with genetic modification of an organism is the result of the characteristics of the organism with its new trait(s) and not the method used to transfer genes for the new trait to the organism. , The major recommendations of the report are: (1) Ensure that federal oversight for plants with inherited traits for resistance to pests is based on the Principles for Oversight stated in this document; (2) Strengthen and make greater use of nonregulatory oversight mechanisms developed for plants, such as plant variety review boards and scientific peer review, that have served effectively during this century, (3) Simplify the federal oversight of plants genetically modified to express novel traits, including those for pest defense, to be consistent with the risk-based policies of the FDA for food safety and the USDA for environmental protection.
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