GE Salmon Approval Meeting Starts Today

awesome, indeed! (4.00 / 3)

Anybody think the country could survive for a few months without ANY action from FDA while somebody empties out the whole )#$*%( place and replaces with staff completely unconnected to anything but the public interest???  Of course, you'd have to check first to determine if such creatures still exist!!!  And then, the USDA, eh?

oh well, we can dream!

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by: chimene @ Sun Sep 19, 2010 at 19:07:20 PM UTC

meeting video. (4.00 / 2)

I'm spoiled. I get all grouchy when important meetings don't result in videos. I wonder if video of these meetings will be posted sometime. At the moment, I do not find video on C-SPAN, FDA, CNN, or YouTube.

But...

FDA rules won't require labeling of genetically modified salmon

Lyndsey Layton
September 18, 2010

The FDA says it cannot require a label on the genetically modified food once it determines that the altered fish is not "materially" different from other salmon - something agency scientists have said is true.

Perhaps more surprising, conventional food makers say the FDA has made it difficult for them to boast that their products do not contain genetically modified ingredients.

FDA advisors to vote on genetically engineered salmon

September 18, 2010
Andrew Zajac, Tribune Washington Bureau

...an FDA advisory committee will vote Monday on whether to approve preliminary findings that a modified salmon is as safe as an ordinary salmon.

The vote is not binding on the FDA, but approval would lend powerful support for a final decision by the agency charged with protecting the nation's food and drug supplies.
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The FDA will hold a separate hearing on what, if any, labeling should be required if the fish is approved. The FDA says it does not have the power to mandate labeling that describes how a food was made, only the content variation that results from a different production process.

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by: count @ Mon Sep 20, 2010 at 05:30:29 AM UTC

I haven't seen video (4.00 / 2)

but I know 2 people who are at the meeting :) I've sent them both emails bugging them for details. In the meantime, check THIS out:
http://www.sourcewatch.org/ind...

"I can understand someone from Iowa promoting corn and soy, but we are not feeding the world, we are feeding animals and soft drink companies." - Jim Goodman

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by: Jill Richardson @ Mon Sep 20, 2010 at 06:59:42 AM UTC

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