USDA Proposes to Deregulate Its Own Transgenic Plum

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USDA Proposes to Deregulate Its Own Transgenic Plum

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ISIS Press Release 11/07/06

 

USDA Proposes to Deregulate Its Own Transgenic Plum

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Should not be approved, major gaps in risk assessment

Prof. Joe Cummins and Dr. Mae-Wan Ho

 

This report was submitted to the USDA on behalf of the

Independent Science Panel

 

Transgenic plum for plum poxvirus resistance

 

The United Sates Department of Agriculture (USDA) has

announced that its Animal and Plant Health Inspection

Service (APHIS) has received a petition from its

Agricultural Research Service (ARS) seeking non-regulated

status for a transgenic plum designated transformation event

C5, genetically engineered to resist infection by plum

poxvirus (PPV), and is soliciting public comments on whether

this plum presents a plant pest risk. The closing date for

making public comment is 17 July 2006

(http://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/component/main)

 

It is worth mentioning that the transgenic plum petition is

the first temperate transgenic tree to be petitioned for

non-regulated status. Petitions for a number of transgenic

trees are certain to follow in short order including

transgenic forest trees, which would be really disastrous

for the world's forests [1] (GM forest trees, the ultimate

threat, SiS 26). Those petitions will be of low quality

unless sufficient public participation is encountered in

this first petition.

 

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