BIO Joins Letter to Senate Supporting USDA Undersecretary Confirmation
July 16, 2021
We, the undersigned organizations, representing a broad and diverse group of the agriculture industry are pleased to support the consideration for Jenny Lester Moffitt, who currently serves as Undersecretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture, to serve as Undersecretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs at the U. S. Department of Agriculture.
We greatly appreciate your efforts to directly engage our organizations, and our members as you work to develop policies that will have direct impact on our food and agriculture supply chain, and our consumers. This engagement has been vital to ensuring that the policies the administration pursues reflects the needs of our collective industries.
BIO and the American Seed Trade Association submitted comments on USDA-APHIS' proposed exemptions of five types of genetic modifications a plant can contain and be exempt from regulations for the movement of organisms modified or produced through…
BIO joined with other groups in writing House and Senate Agriculture Committee leaders in support of agricultural research (FFAR) funding in the farm bill.
BIO provides detailed comments in advance of the July 31, 2023 NIH Workshop, “Transforming Discoveries into Products: Maximizing NIH’s Levers to Catalyze Technology Transfer.
We, the undersigned organizations, representing a broad and diverse group of the agriculture industry are pleased to support the consideration for Jenny Lester Moffitt, who currently serves as Undersecretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture, to serve as Undersecretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs at the U. S. Department of Agriculture.
We greatly appreciate your efforts to directly engage our organizations, and our members as you work to develop policies that will have direct impact on our food and agriculture supply chain, and our consumers. This engagement has been vital to ensuring that the policies the administration pursues reflects the needs of our collective industries.