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USDA TO STREAMLINE ITS BIOTECH APPROVAL PROCESS
Feb. 24, 2016
BrownfieldAgNews reports:
USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has new guidance for deregulation extension requests for genetically engineered (GE) organisms.
The agency says the move will streamline and standardize its process for extending deregulations for GE organisms.
APHIS deregulates GE products when it determines the products do not pose a plant pest risk. It extends deregulation to a new GE organism if the organism is sufficiently similar to a previously reviewed and deregulated organism. APHIS says the new guidance applies when a previously reviewed trait is introduced into different varieties of the same crop. It also applies when traits previously reviewed in a crop are stacked into the same crop through genetic engineering.
Another instance where the new guidance applies is where phenotype categories have been reviewed previously in the crop but a mechanism-of-action new to the crop has been reviewed in another crop.
APHIS says the new guidance is based on its experience, and with its adoption, APHIS can streamline its process for product deregulation while still using rigorous scientific reviews and decision-making. The agency anticipates being able to make a decision on most extension requests in less than eight months.
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