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World Food Prize Symposium on Genetically
Modified Crops
Des Moines, Iowa, Oct 12-13, 2000.
Fact Sheets
12/19/00:
Report of the U.S.-EU Biotechnology Consultative Forum
08/26/00: U.S. and Nigeria: Energy, Labor, Law
Enforcement, Environment, Democracy, and Biotechnology
03/21/00: Frequently Asked Questions about Biotechnology
03/21/00: Healthy Harvests: Growth Through Biotechnology
05/03/00: Strengthening Science-Based Regulation
Official Texts
12/05/00: Press Release, UNEP (Biosafety Meeting to Help Governments Reduce GMO Risks)
11/11/00: James Schroeder, Remarks, Strategic Alliance for Biotechnology Research in African Development (SABRAD), Accra, Ghana ( Biotechnology Offers Promising and Safe Tool for Global Food)
10/12/00: Alan Larson, Remarks, World Food Prize Symposium Luncheon, Des Moines, Iowa (Challenges and Opportunities of Agricultural Biotechnology)
07/17/00: Press Release, U.S. Trade Representative (WTO Panel Finds U.S. Acted Prematurely on Bananas, but U.S. Duties Unaffected)
07/12/00: E. Anthony Wayne, Statement, Subcommittee on International Economic Policy, Export, and Trade Promotion, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (The Role of Biotechnology in Combating Hunger)
07/12/00: David B. Sandalow, Testimony, Subcommittee on International Economic Policy, Export, and Trade Promotion, Senate Committee on Foreign Relations (The Role of Biotechnology in Combating Hunger)
04/18/00: Dan Glickman, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Remarks, Consumer Federation of America, Washington, DC (2000 National Food Policy Conference)
04/17/00: Alan Larson, Remarks, Consumer Federation of America (Biotechnology: Challenge and Opportunity)
03/22/00: Ambassador Cynthia P. Schneider, University of Nijenrode, the Netherlands (Biotechnology and Europe: Promise and Paradox)
03/14/00:President Clinton and U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair, Joint Statement (Human Genome Project)
03/14/00: Dr. Neal Lane, Director of the President's Office on Science and Technology Policy and Dr. Francis Collins, Director of the Human Genome Project, White Press Briefing
02/21/00: Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright, Remarks, American Association for the Advancement of Science,
Washington, D.C. (Science and Technology)
01/18/00: Biotechnology Conference: The Science and the Impact
Reports
04/05/00:
National Research Council Report, National Academies, Washington, DC (Genetically Modified Pest-Protected Plants)
03/21/00: GAO Report, Washington, DC (Biotechnology: Information on Prices of Genetically Modified Seeds in the United States and Argentina)
03/01/00: Chairman's Report on OECD Conference on Genetically Modified Foods, Edinburgh, Scotland (GM Food Safety: Facts, Uncertainties, and Assessment)
03/01/00: Rapporteurs' Summary on OECD Conference on Genetically Modified Foods, Edinburgh, Scotland (GM Food Safety: Facts, Uncertainties, and Assessment)
06/99: Modern Biotechnology and the OECD, Paris, France
U.S. Congress
03/08/00: Agricultural Export and Food Aid Programs
09/99: U.S. Congress, Joint Economic Committee (Putting a Human Face on Biotechnology)
12/03/99: CRS Issues for Congress (The European Union's Ban on Hormone-Treated Meat)
12/03/99: CRS Issues for Congress (Food Safety Issues in the 106th Congress)
10/21/98: CRS Issues for Congress (
U.S.-European Agricultural Trade: Food Safety and Biotechnology Issues)
Related Documents
Biotechnology: the Science and the Impact
Conference, The Hague, The Netherlands, Jan 20-21, 2000
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