USDA to Host Meeting on Proposed Rule Regarding GE Organisms
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal Plant Health Inspection Service has announced a public meeting on April 29 and 30, 2009, in Riverdale, Maryland, to address a proposed rule involving the interstate movement and environmental release of certain genetically engineered (GE) organisms. The comment period on the proposed rule has been extended to June 29, 2009. See Federal Register, April 13, 2009.
