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Biotechnology: A Lot Is Going On
Author(s) -
Bergeson Lynn L.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
environmental quality management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.249
H-Index - 27
eISSN - 1520-6483
pISSN - 1088-1913
DOI - 10.1002/tqem.21446
Subject(s) - library science , citation , quality (philosophy) , computer science , philosophy , epistemology
Biotechnology is an area of growing domestic and international importance to the manufacturing sector, and this summer the federal government announced several important biotechnology initiatives of which stakeholders should be aware. On July 2, 2015, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the United States (US) Trade Representative, and the Council on Environmental Quality issued a memorandum directing the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) to update and modernize the Coordinated Framework for the Regulation of Biotechnology (Coordinated Framework) (Holdren, Shelanski, Vetter, & Goldfuss, 2015a).