BIO Letter to Senate Appropriations Committee on Priorities for Fiscal Year 2023 Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act
May 4, 2022
The value of science and agricultural innovation cannot be understated. The adoption of biotechnology in agriculture and the development of biobased technologies contribute to food security, sustainability, and climate change solutions. Over the past 25 years, it enabled shifts in agronomic practices that led to significant and widespread environmental benefits.
BIO supports public policies centered on innovation to incentivize the adoption of cutting-edge technologies and practices and benefit rural economies. Further, it is crucial that the government establishes risk-proportionate, transparent regulations in a timely manner to maintain America’s global leadership in the life sciences while protecting health and the environment.
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 and 59 other organizations have written to House and Senate Agriculture Committee leaders to ask that they direct Congress to withdraw the current rule concerning regulation of plant incorporated protectants and replace it one based on a science…
The value of science and agricultural innovation cannot be understated. The adoption of biotechnology in agriculture and the development of biobased technologies contribute to food security, sustainability, and climate change solutions. Over the past 25 years, it enabled shifts in agronomic practices that led to significant and widespread environmental benefits.
BIO supports public policies centered on innovation to incentivize the adoption of cutting-edge technologies and practices and benefit rural economies. Further, it is crucial that the government establishes risk-proportionate, transparent regulations in a timely manner to maintain America’s global leadership in the life sciences while protecting health and the environment.