Post-Market Oversight of Biotech Foods: Is the System Prepared? (Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology)

Cover
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Title Page
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Table of Contents......Page 5
Rationale and Scope of the Report......Page 7
Layout of the Report......Page 8
Agricultural Biotechnology......Page 9
Public Perspective on Biotech Crops and Foods......Page 10
Regulatory Perspective on Biotech Crops and Foods......Page 11
Biotechnology Pipeline......Page 14
Traditional Objectives......Page 15
Maintaining Public Confidence......Page 17
Current Postmarket Oversight Regimes......Page 18
USDA......Page 19
EPA......Page 26
FDA......Page 30
Current Issues......Page 32
Lack of Systematic Oversight of “Deregulated” Crops by USDA......Page 33
EPA’s Approach to Enforcing Use Restrictions on PIPs......Page 38
Practical scope of FDA’s jurisdiction.......Page 45
Adventitious Presence of Genetic Traits in Nontargeted Crops and Foods......Page 52
Identity Preservation and Traceability of Biotech Foods to Their Source......Page 65
Conclusion......Page 79
The ProdiGene Incident......Page 82
The StarLink Incident: A Challenge to the System......Page 84
StarLink Corn: A Chronology......Page 86
Interviewees......Page 100
Reviewers......Page 102
References......Page 104
Jody S. Tick......Page 123