{"id":25253,"date":"2019-07-16T00:00:49","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T04:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/?p=25253"},"modified":"2019-07-16T17:17:06","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T21:17:06","slug":"take-action-usda-must-offer-basic-protection-from-genetically-engineered-organisms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/2019\/07\/take-action-usda-must-offer-basic-protection-from-genetically-engineered-organisms\/","title":{"rendered":"Take Action: USDA Must Offer Basic Protection from Genetically Engineered Organisms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-25267\" src=\"https:\/\/beyondpesticides.org\/dailynewsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/USDA.GMO_.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"627\" height=\"172\" \/>(<em>Beyond Pesticides<\/em>, July 16, 2019)\u00a0USDA&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.regulations.gov\/docket?D=APHIS-2018-0034\">proposed new rules<\/a>\u00a0on genetically engineered (GE) crops exempt almost all GE crops from regulation and allow the company that makes them to decide whether they are safe. The rules proposed by USDA&#8217;s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) benefit companies like Monsanto\/Bayer and Dow, but fail to protect farmers, consumers, and the environment. Please tell APHIS to abandon its proposal and support a regulatory system that is consistent with modern science.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/secure.everyaction.com\/5S8hTrIxu06AHBxvip-a3w2\"><strong>Tell USDA not to allow companies to approve their own GE crops.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The rules would govern USDA&#8217;s role in the outdated and fatally flawed \u201cCoordinated Framework for the Regulation of Biotechnology.\u201d The Framework fails to account for the unique risks of genetic engineering, using existing laws like the Plant Protection Act to address issues for which they were not designed. This proposal weakens the APHIS regulations even more.<\/p>\n<p>All genetically engineered (GE) organisms\u2014plants, animals, or microorganisms\u2014should be subjected to systematic assessments of human and environmental effects and indirect economic effects (such as contamination of organic or non-GE crops leading to rejection in foreign markets, spread of resistant pests, etc.) before being allowed on the market. These assessments must be made available to the public for comment. All products from GE organisms in the marketplace should be labeled as such to allow consumer choice and to permit tracking of unintended health effects. Companies that develop GE organisms should be required to disclose any GE trait, marker genes, or other genetic constructs that might be present in a commercial GE seed product, including traits and genes for obsolete, no longer marketed traits. In addition, the definition of genetic engineering should be broad enough to include all the newer genetic engineering techniques, such as RNAi or the new gene-editing technologies (such as CRISPR-cas9, TALEN, ZNF, and meganucleases).<\/p>\n<p>In particular, APHIS regulations should:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Base the regulation of GE organisms on the unique hazards they present;<\/li>\n<li>Include \u201csynthetic biology\u201d in the definition of regulated genetic engineering;<\/li>\n<li>Prohibit developers from exempting themselves from regulation;<\/li>\n<li>Regulate PMPIs\u2014plant-made pharmaceutical and industrial chemicals;<\/li>\n<li>Ensure that PIPs\u2014plant incorporated protectants\u2014are regulated at all scales;<\/li>\n<li>Address hazards other than \u201cplant pest\u201d risks, including: The unwelcome presence of GE genes in neighboring fields of organic or identity-preserved crops, the creation of new compounds in a plant, formed in the plant&#8217;s detoxification of herbicides, the movement of genes for manufacture of industrial or pharmaceutical chemicals into crop plants, the creation of \u201csuperweeds\u201d (plant pests) through selection for resistance to herbicides continually used on GE crops, the overuse of herbicides in cropping systems dependent on the use of herbicides sprayed over herbicide-tolerant crops, destruction of habitat adjacent to farm fields by overuse of nonselective herbicides sprayed over herbicide-tolerant crops, selection for resistance in insects targeted by PIPs, reduction in populations of insects due to effects of PIPs and destruction of habitat adjacent to fields sprayed by nonselective herbicides over herbicide-tolerant crops, and health effects suffered by those exposed to excessive use of herbicides.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sign your name\u00a0to our petition (link below), which we will send to APHIS. To be even more effective,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.regulations.gov\/comment?D=APHIS-2018-0034-0037\">submit your own comments through the Regulations.gov website<\/a>. Feel free to copy from the language in the petition and\/or that in the Beyond Pesticides comments.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/secure.everyaction.com\/5S8hTrIxu06AHBxvip-a3w2\"><strong>Tell USDA not to allow companies to approve their own GE crops.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Petition: USDA Must Offer Basic Protection from Genetically Engineered Organisms<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>USDA Docket APHIS-2018-0034-0037\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The \u201cCoordinated Framework for the Regulation of Biotechnology\u201d fails to account for the unique risks of genetic engineering, using existing laws like the Plant Protection Act to address issues for which they were not designed. This proposal weakens the APHIS regulations even more.<\/p>\n<p>All genetically engineered (GE) organisms\u2014plants, animals, or microorganisms\u2014should be subjected to systematic assessments of human and environmental effects and indirect economic effects (such as contamination of organic or non-GE crops leading to rejection in foreign markets, spread of resistant pests, etc.) before being allowed on the market. These assessments must be made available to the public for comment. All products from GE organisms in the marketplace must be labeled as such to allow consumer choice and to permit tracking of unintended health effects. Companies that develop GE organisms should be required to disclose any GE trait, marker genes, or other genetic constructs that might be present in a commercial GE seed product, including traits and genes for obsolete, no longer marketed traits. In addition, the definition of genetic engineering should be broad enough to include all the newer genetic engineering techniques such as RNAi or the new gene-editing technologies (such as CRISPR-cas9, TALEN, ZNF, and meganucleases).<\/p>\n<p>In particular, APHIS regulations should:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Base the regulation of GE organisms on the unique hazards they present;<\/li>\n<li>Include \u201csynthetic biology\u201d in the definition of regulated genetic engineering;<\/li>\n<li>Prohibit developers from exempting themselves from regulation;<\/li>\n<li>Regulate PMPIs\u2014plant-made pharmaceutical and industrial chemicals;<\/li>\n<li>Ensure that PIPs \u2013plant incorporated protectants\u2014are regulated at all scales;<\/li>\n<li>Address hazards other than \u201cplant pest\u201d risks, including: The unwelcome presence of GE genes in neighboring fields of organic or identity-preserved crops, the creation of new compounds in a plant, formed in the plant&#8217;s detoxification of herbicides, the movement of genes for manufacture of industrial or pharmaceutical chemicals into crop plants, the creation of \u201csuperweeds\u201d (plant pests) through selection for resistance to herbicides continually used on GE crops, the overuse of herbicides in cropping systems dependent on the use of herbicides sprayed over herbicide-tolerant crops, destruction of habitat adjacent to farm fields by overuse of nonselective herbicides sprayed over herbicide-tolerant crops, selection for resistance in insects targeted by PIPs, reduction in populations of insects due to effects of PIPs and destruction of habitat adjacent to fields sprayed by nonselective herbicides over herbicide-tolerant crops, and health effects suffered by those exposed to excessive use of herbicides.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Beyond Pesticides, July 16, 2019)\u00a0USDA&#8217;s\u00a0proposed new rules\u00a0on genetically engineered (GE) crops exempt almost all GE crops from regulation and allow the company that makes them to decide whether they are safe. The rules proposed by USDA&#8217;s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) benefit companies like Monsanto\/Bayer and Dow, but fail to protect farmers, consumers, and the environment. Please tell APHIS to abandon its proposal and support a regulatory system that is consistent with modern science. Tell USDA not to allow companies to approve their own GE crops. The rules would govern USDA&#8217;s role in the outdated and fatally flawed \u201cCoordinated Framework for the Regulation of Biotechnology.\u201d The Framework fails to account for the unique risks of genetic engineering, using existing laws like the Plant Protection Act to address issues for which they were not designed. This proposal weakens the APHIS regulations even more. 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