Viewpoint: Tapping the breaks on regulatory overreach — How administrative bloat set up roadblocks for crop innovation

Viewpoint: Tapping the breaks on regulatory overreach — How administrative bloat set up roadblocks for crop innovation

Cato Institute | 
The EPA’s “plant regulator” definition has caused alarm in the relatively new plant biostimulant industry because some of its products ...
Are Americans too complacent about a winter surge of COVID infections — and deaths?

Are Americans too complacent about a winter surge of COVID infections — and deaths?

To the old saying about the inevitability of death and taxes, we should add another: another health crisis linked to ...
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Viewpoint: President Biden was widely praised for his executive order boosting the ‘bioeconomy’. It reads good but here’s why it is likely to backfire

City Journal | 
Half a century ago, biotechnology became a marketing buzzword for the products and processes that used then-new techniques of genetic ...
Will the Biden Administration ‘follow the science’ on agricultural biotechnology regulatory reform?

Will the Biden Administration ‘follow the science’ on agricultural biotechnology regulatory reform?

This year marks the 35th anniversary of the US Coordinated Framework for the Regulation of Biotechnology, a blueprint for federal ...
Viewpoint: Let’s stop the fear mongering in food labeling

Viewpoint: Let’s stop the fear mongering in food labeling

Between his former and current terms as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack in a 2019 opinion piece called for a ...
Viewpoint: FDA’s overregulation of gene-edited animals hinders innovation and harms consumers

Viewpoint: FDA’s overregulation of gene-edited animals hinders innovation and harms consumers

City Journal | 
When the FDA wants to, it can get desperately needed products expeditiously to those who need them.  But for some ...
Viewpoint: COVID won't subside in the US until 70% of us are immune. That means: 'Get a vaccine'

Viewpoint: COVID won’t subside in the US until 70% of us are immune. That means: ‘Get a vaccine’

Genetic Literacy Project | 
The United States is one of the most seriously COVID-19-impacted countries, faring the worst among the ten most-affected countries worldwide, as ...
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Viewpoint: This is no time to cut corners on regulation of COVID-19 vaccines

Genetic Literacy Project | 
With COVID-19 cases, the percentage of positive test results, and hospitalizations reaching record levels in much of the nation, the ...
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Viewpoint: FDA’s plan to regulate gene-edited animals as drugs is a ‘failed policy’

Investor's Business Daily | 
Some bureaucrats in the Trump administration seem not to have gotten the memo about deregulation being good for innovation, the ...
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FDA reaffirms much-criticized plan to regulate genetically engineered animals as if they were a drug

Genetic Literacy Project | 
FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb has doubled down on his agency’s failed policy for regulating an entire sector of biotechnology — the ...
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Viewpoint: It’s time to replace our fear-based genetic engineering regulations

Genetic Literacy Project | 
In the early 1970s a group of scientists -- none involved in agriculture or food -- raised concerns about the ...
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Viewpoint: How politics pollutes the FDA’s genetically modified animal regulations and stifles innovation

Genetic Literacy Project | 
AquaBounty's fast-growing salmon and Oxitec's disease-fighting mosquitos are two examples of why genetically modified animals should be regulated by the ...
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Viewpoint: FDA regulations ‘a disaster’ for genetically modified animal research

Genetic Literacy Project | 
The Trump Administration and Congress should rein in the FDA's regulatory overreach on genetically engineered animals, which is stifling important ...
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Viewpoint: Why the FDA should not be regulating genetically engineered animals (as drugs, no less)

[Editor's note: Henry Miller is founding director of the FDA's Office of Biotechnology. John Cohrssen is former counsel to the White ...
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Will Trump Administration reduce ‘unnecessary’ agricultural biotechnology regulations?

Forbes | 
During the campaign, President-elect Trump questioned whether certain regulations were sensible, and in its transition to power the new administration ...
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Viewpoint: Why are the feds blocking technologies to control the mosquitoes that spread Zika virus?

Genetic Literacy Project | 
This article originally ran at Forbes and has been republished here with permission of the author. FDA took an unconscionable ...

Does over-regulation of GMOs stymie development, reduce competition?

Forbes | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Our regulatory experience over ...
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What do organic labels really mean?

Washington Times | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Organic farming has boomed ...
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Will White House review of biotech regulation lead to expanded or streamlined rules?

Cato Institute | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Obama administration recently ...

Regulatory creep creating ‘anti-competitive obstacles’ for US biotech

The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The advent of molecular ...
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US Supreme Court decision could render mandatory GMO labeling unconstitutional

Forbes | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Controversy continues to rage ...

GM mosquitoes can control mosquito menace, if politics doesn’t block development

Project Syndicate | 
Mosquito-borne diseases kill millions of people annually, and cause suffering for many more. It takes only one bite from a disease-carrying ...
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