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- Title
Playing catch-up.
- Abstract
Since 1986, the United States has tenaciously stuck to the principle that assessment of the health, safety and environmental impact of biotech products should require no special laws or regulatory oversight. The main change of course is the nature of some of the production systems. For instance, transgenic corn can now double as a drug, transgenic salmon can pump out hormones to grow all year round, transgenic silkworms can spin Kevlar instead of silk, and transgenic cows can produce low-methane moos or milk suitable for lactose-intolerant dairy lovers.
- Subjects
UNITED States; BIOTECHNOLOGY; PUBLIC health; ENVIRONMENTAL impact analysis; HORMONES; TRANSGENES
- Publication
Nature Biotechnology, 2004, Vol 22, Issue 6, p637
- ISSN
1087-0156
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/nbt0604-637