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...force charged setting regulatory standards for foods obtained through biotechnology. They are making it harder for anyone, anywhere, to produce more varied, safe, and nutritious foods economically.
The task force was organized under the auspices of the Codex Alimentarius Commission, which sets food standards on behalf of the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Health Organization. Unfortunately, the task force's work is a long-term exercise in self-indulgent irresponsibility on the part of government bureaucrats and industry lobbyists. Now in its eighth year, the mission of the task force is to create new regulatory requirements that apply only to foods made with the newest, most precise, and most predictable techniques of biotechnology--gene-splicing, or "genetic modification" while exempting others made with far less precise and predictable conventional technologies. Having already stifled innovative research on food plants and microorganisms in past years, it is now metastasizing to other areas, such as animals and even animals immunized with high-tech vaccines.
It is one thing to regulate new foods with traits that are of potential concern. It is quite another to regulate merely because a certain technique has been used, especially when the technique is state-of-the-art and superior to its predecessors. It is rather like circumscribing for extra regulation only...
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