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The Starlink Case Put Biotech in the Public Spotlight
The Starlink Case: Issues for the Future
Date: 1/27/2010 3:17:33 PM ( 14 y ) ... viewed 945 times
1:11 PM
January 27, 2010
KEEP The BEET Media Star,
The World's FIrst Talking Beet Plant
is interrupting my GREAT EARTH CLEANUP session
right now.
She is jumping up and down
wanting to point out various references
to her Washington Counterpart,
MICHAEL R TAYLOR,
the U.S. Czar of Foods.
As Czarina of foods,
the other side of this Yin-Yang Balance,
she is fascinating with the powerful role
The FDA-former MONSANTO industry
influencing giant, shows up in the Media.
Here is the lastest find:
A research report of the Starlink Case,
http://www.mindfully.org/GE/GE3/StarLink-Issues-Pew-Oct01.htm
Abstract
The disclosure in September 2000 that StarLink™ corn had been found in the human food supply put food biotechnology in the public spotlight and caused concern among consumers and food system stakeholders alike that a product approved only for animal use could find its way to grocery shelves. The StarLink experience raises a number of issues that deserve study concerning the current regulatory system and public policies affecting genetically modified foods. The issues include how to manage allergenicity issues posed by biotech foods at the approval stage. Most of the issues, however, involve post-approval control of staple food crops that have been genetically modified. It may be increasingly important in the future to maintain the identity of genetically modified crops and segregate them from conventional ones, yet neither the grain trading system nor the government regulatory system were designed to ensure this. This paper is the first step in a case study that Resources for the Future is conducting for the Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology to identify and analyze the regulatory and public policy issues raised by the StarLink episode. In this paper, we pose questions concerning the adequacy of current legal authority, regulatory procedures, and institutional arrangements for post-approval control of biotech foods that we intend to analyze in depth during the balance of the study based on interviews and other research. We welcome comment on this paper and the planned study.
Key Words: agricultural biotechnology, food allergens, food regulation, food safety, genetically modified food, grain trading system, StarLink™ corn.
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