Brattleboro Reformer

GE foods soon to be in stores

WASHINGTON -- Super Chicken strutted a step closer to the dinner table Thursday. The government said it will start considering proposals to sell genetically engineered animals as food, a move that ...
Agri-Pulse

Despite FDA objections, MOU aims to give USDA authority over GE animals

The Food and Drug Administration is pushing back against a Memorandum of Understanding released Tuesday and designed to divide regulatory authority over genetically-engineered animals between USDA and ...
JD Supra

Trump USDA and FDA Spar Over Regulation of Genetically Engineered Animals – Does This Sideshow Have Any Actual Implications for Regulatory Policy?

At the outset of the Biden Administration it is clear that there will be a sharp pivot in the Federal Government’s approach to many environmental regulatory policies. One area that will be interesting ...
JD Supra

U.S. policy on the regulation of genetically engineered animals evolves with steps by FDA and USDA

The United States’ regulation of genetically engineered (GE) animals recently advanced with two new developments from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and U.S. Food and Drug Administration ...
Capital Press

Groups push for FDA oversight of genetically engineered animals

Thirteen groups led by the Center for Food Safety are urging the Food and Drug Administration to retain regulatory authority over genetically engineered food animals. In January, the Trump ...
Just-Food

GERMANY: Mcdonald’s stops using Genetically Engineered animal food in some European countries

The multinational fast food chain, McDonald's, has written to Greenpeace Germany that it intends no longer to serve animal products coming from animals fed with genetically engineered (GE) feed in its ...
Common Dreams

Groups Urge Regulation of Genetically Engineered Animals Stay with FDA not USDA

This week, thirteen national advocacy groups concerned about public health, environment, and animal welfare urged key federal agencies to maintain regulatory authority over genetically engineered food ...
New Haven Register

SEC says GE shareholders should vote on animal testing

STAMFORD General Electric Co. should allow shareholders to vote on a proposal by an animal rights group to stop animal testing, the Securities and Exchange Commission said. GE is the latest of several ...
Animal Welfare Institute

Feds Urged Not to Upend FDA Oversight of GE Farm Animals

For years, the animal agriculture industry has pressured the federal government to facilitate production of genetically engineered (GE) farm animals as a way to increase production and profits. Just ...
Reuters

FDA to adopt more transparent process for GE animals

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Food and Drug Administration said on Thursday it would make the process it uses to approve genetically engineered animals more transparent, but consumer groups expressed ...
Capital Press

Groups push for FDA oversight of genetically engineered animals

Thirteen groups led by the Center for Food Safety are urging the Food and Drug Administration to retain regulatory authority over genetically engineered food animals. In January, the Trump ...