[PCA] NEWS: Seeds of doubt: Rules for bioengineered crops need close monitoring

[Olivia Kwong]

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/6168484.html

Seeds of doubt
Rules for bioengineered crops need close monitoring
Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle
Dec. 16, 2008, 10:02PM

As the Bush administration nears its final weeks, officials are hastily 
loosening key rules in workplace safety, environmental protection -- and 
soon, perhaps, on American farmlands. This month, the U.S. Department of 
Agriculture began finalizing its oversight rules for genetically modified 
crops: artificial plant strains with the potential for doing humans great 
good -- and serious long-term harm.

The USDA needs to resist any industry pressure to rush these new rules 
into effect.

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