John Cohrssen
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Viewpoint: FDA’s overregulation of gene-edited animals hinders innovation and harms consumers
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’
The United States is one of the most seriously COVID-19-impacted countries, faring the worst among the ten most-affected countries worldwide, as ...
Viewpoint: This is no time to cut corners on regulation of COVID-19 vaccines
With COVID-19 cases, the percentage of positive test results, and hospitalizations reaching record levels in much of the nation, the ...
Viewpoint: FDA’s plan to regulate gene-edited animals as drugs is a ‘failed policy’
Some bureaucrats in the Trump administration seem not to have gotten the memo about deregulation being good for innovation, the ...
FDA reaffirms much-criticized plan to regulate genetically engineered animals as if they were a drug
FDA Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb has doubled down on his agency’s failed policy for regulating an entire sector of biotechnology — the ...
Viewpoint: It’s time to replace our fear-based genetic engineering regulations
In the early 1970s a group of scientists -- none involved in agriculture or food -- raised concerns about the ...
Viewpoint: How politics pollutes the FDA’s genetically modified animal regulations and stifles innovation
AquaBounty's fast-growing salmon and Oxitec's disease-fighting mosquitos are two examples of why genetically modified animals should be regulated by the ...
Viewpoint: FDA regulations ‘a disaster’ for genetically modified animal research
The Trump Administration and Congress should rein in the FDA's regulatory overreach on genetically engineered animals, which is stifling important ...
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 ...
Will Trump Administration reduce ‘unnecessary’ agricultural biotechnology regulations?
During the campaign, President-elect Trump questioned whether certain regulations were sensible, and in its transition to power the new administration ...
Viewpoint: Why are the feds blocking technologies to control the mosquitoes that spread Zika virus?
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?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Our regulatory experience over ...
What do organic labels really mean?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Organic farming has boomed ...
Will White House review of biotech regulation lead to expanded or streamlined rules?
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 ...
US Supreme Court decision could render mandatory GMO labeling unconstitutional
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
Mosquito-borne diseases kill millions of people annually, and cause suffering for many more. It takes only one bite from a disease-carrying ...
