Program to Improve Quality Compliance of GE Products
November 9, 2007| |
A new Biotechnology Quality Management System, a voluntary compliance assistance program, is scheduled for initial implementation in spring 2008 in the United States. Acting Agriculture Secretary Chuck Conner said that this program will help universities, small businesses, and large companies to develop sound management practices to enhance compliance with regulatory requirements for field trials and movements of genetically engineered (GE) organisms. Connors stressed that “Biotechnology is a key component of our growing agricultural economy. The US Department of Agriculture’s program will help the biotechnology sector become better stewards by focusing on the implementation of best management practices so that problems can be prevented.”
USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspections Service (APHIS) will oversee the program in tandem with the USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) which will manage the audit component of the program and accredit third party auditors.
See full article in http://www.isb.vt.edu/news/2007/artspdf/nov0701.pdf.
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