The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is revising the regulations governing the release of genetically engineered (GE) crops into the environment, including GE crops that produce pharmaceutical (pharma) and industrial substances. The USDA is proposing to maintain essentially the same oversight system currently used, despite the department's demonstrated inability to adequately protect the food supply from pharma/industrial crop contamination. The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) believes that the combination of past oversight failures, recent steep increases in the acreage of pharma/industrial food crops, and virtual impossibility of keeping these crops separate from crops destined for the food supply calls for a new, stronger approach. Help UCS persuade the USDA to protect our food by banning outdoor use of food and feed crops to produce drugs and industrial chemicals.

Union of Concerned Scientists
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