Abstracts » Zoology and wildlife conservation

Out of bounds

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United States grows more than half of the world's genetically engineered crops monitored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the Environmental Protection Agency and the Food and Drug Administration. Since few cases of these unapproved genetically engineered crops getting mixed with human consumption ones are noted the USDA has revised its environmental standards but it is believed that tougher regulations do not give 100% guarantee of confinement.

Product standards, safety, & recalls, Standards, United States. Department of Agriculture, Genetically modified crops

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A breed apart

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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will be releasing a draft risk assessment on the use of cloned livestock for food by the end of 2006. The cost of cloning and the lack of efficiency in the process will keep the number of clones relatively small and preclude people from eating it.

Legal issues & crime, Government regulation (cont), Government regulation, Farm Machinery and Equipment Manufacturing, Legal/Government Regulation, Farm machinery and equipment, Livestock Feeders, Laws, regulations and rules, Cloning, Health risk assessment, United States. Food and Drug Administration, Livestock

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The same but different

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Biopharmaceutical experts believe that protein-based drugs are very complex and difficult to copy for reproducing it as generics.

Science & research, Pharmaceutical Preparation Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical preparations, Generic Drugs, Research, Composition, Biopharmaceutics, Biopharmaceuticals

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