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Margaret Mellon, Ph.D., J.D.
Jane Rissler, Ph.D.
Union of Concerned Scientists
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In the United States, the nascent agricultural industry emerged in the early 1980s—a product of two decades of dramatic advances in molecular biology research. As it became clear that the industry was contemplating a broad variety of products, including many that would be used out of doors, the Reagan administration began to grapple with questions of regulatory oversight. Even though it tended to resist regulation as a general matter, the Reagan administration eventually decided to fashion a new “regulatory framework” made up of old statutes. It explicitly rejected the option of new regulatory legislation targeted to biotechnology products, at least in part because administration policy was premised on the similarity of biotechnology to earlier reproductive technologies.
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