Genetic Engineering Links
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Public interest organization web sites
- Actionbioscience.org
Created to promote bioscience literacy by examining issues that will motivate the public to play an active role in bioscience awareness, education, and research. The site provides articles by scientists, science educators, and science students on bioscience issues.
- Ag BioTech InfoNet
A collection of news items and technical reports from magazines, newspapers, journals and the Internet on issues related to biotechnology, especially those critical of genetically modified crops in agriculture. Maintained by Ecologic, Inc.
The Bioscience Resource Project
Provides information and opinions on technical and policy developments in biotechnology and encourages biologists to make ethical, informed decisions when choosing areas of research.
- Campaign to Label Genetically Engineered Food
A national grassroots consumer campaign to lobby Congress to pass legislation requiring the labeling of genetically engineered foods in the United States. - Ag BioTech InfoNet
Challenges harmful food production technologies and promotes sustainable alternatives through litigation, legal petitions for rulemaking, and public education.
Monitors the development of new genetic technologies, including human genetic engineering and agricultural biotechnology, and advocates for their responsible use.
An information source for American farmers about genetically modified crops, alternatives, management options, and profitability; provides balance, complementing other news sources and helping American producers make the best planting and management decisions.
Provides Greenpeace information on genetic engineering, briefings, actions to take, press releases, and reports.
Building a national and international consumer/farmer/labor/progressive retailer boycott of genetically engineered and chemically contaminated foods and crops.
The True Food Network
Unites consumers who want to end the use of genetically engineered organisms in food products. Offers opportunities for online action, a True Food activist kit, and more.
AgBioForum Magazine
A journal on biotechnology developments and economics financed by the Illinois Missouri Biotechnology Alliance, which promotes biotechnology research.
AgBiotechNet
Publishes information about biotechnology and biosafety for researchers and policy makers, and provides access to articles on genetic engineering, in vitro culture, biosafety, intellectual property rights, and other key issues in agricultural biotechnology. A project of CAB International and the Agricultural Biotechnology Support Project. Subscription required for full-text access.
Government web sites
Biosafety Clearing-House
A component of the Convention on Biological Diversity Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety based on the current text of the draft protocol, and revised as the negotiation process and adoption of the protocol occur.
Environmental Protection Agency / Office of Biopesticides and Pollution Prevention
Provides access to policies, regulations, and other information related to federal government oversight of environmental releases of genetically engineered organisms used as pesticides, including applications and approvals for field tests and commercialization of engineered pesticidal plants and microbes.
Food and Drug Administration / Center for Food Safety - Approved Genetically Engineered Foods
A list of genetically engineered foods that the U.S. FDA considers safe for human consumption in the United States. Site includes proposed, pending, and final FDA rules and policies regarding food biotechnology.
Information Systems for Biotechnology / National Biological Impact Assessment Program
Databases allow a search of information on U.S. and international genetically engineered crops that have been approved for field trials and commercialization. Maintained by Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Primary source of UCS's pharma crop database.
International Field Test Web Sites
A list of web sites containing information about field tests in several countries.
United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization
Focuses on biotechnology in food and agriculture news and events, and includes the FAO statement on biotechnology and FAO documents and activities.
U.S. Department of Agriculture / Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service / Biotechnology Regulatory Services
Provides information on USDA's regulation of ag biotech and searchable databases and other information on field tests and commercialization of genetically engineered crops, microbes, and invertebrate animals and USDA rules and policies concerning agricultural biotechnology.
U.S. Department of Agriculture / Biotechnology Risk Assessment Research Grants
Grants to assist federal regulatory agencies in making science-based decisions about the safety of introducing into the environment genetically modified organisms, including plants, microorganisms, fungi, bacteria, viruses, arthropods, fish, birds, mammals, and other animals.
U.S. National Institutes of Health Guidelines for Research Involving Recombinant DNA Molecules
Specifies practices for constructing and handling recombinant DNA molecules and organisms and viruses containing recombinant DNA molecules.
Industry web sites
Biotechnology Industry Organization
A trade organization representing the global biotechnology industry; provides a media guide to biotechnology, press releases and industry news, biotech food products list, and a citizen's guide to biotechnology, laws, policies, and bioethics.
Council for Biotechnology Information
Paid for by biotechnology companies and trade associations to provide pro-biotech information.
Crop Life America
A national trade association representing pesticide and plant biotechnology companies. Promotes the use of synthetic pesticides and plant biotechnology products for the production of food, fiber, and other crops.
Newsletters
The Non-GMO Report
A monthly newsletter that reports on trends in genetically modified food and urges adoption of alternatives. Covers technical issues of production, contamination of conventional and organic crops by genetically modified organisms, consumer attitudes, and sources of non-genetically engineered and organic ingredients. The same publisher produces The Non-GMO Sourcebook, an annual directory of suppliers of non-GMO products.
