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2009-01-16 |

U.S. FDA to adopt more transparent process for GE animals

The Food and Drug Administration said on Thursday it would make the process it uses to approve genetically engineered animals more transparent, but consumer groups expressed concern the government was not going far enough to protect the pubic. The guidelines being finalized by the FDA bring the decades-old technology of genetic engineering for animals one step closer to the dinner table. Officials from the FDA would not speculate when the first of the applications, which are in various stages of development, would be approved.

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2009-01-16 |

U.S. FDA to adopt more transparent process for GE animals

The Food and Drug Administration said on Thursday it would make the process it uses to approve genetically engineered animals more transparent, but consumer groups expressed concern the government was not going far enough to protect the pubic. The guidelines being finalized by the FDA bring the decades-old technology of genetic engineering for animals one step closer to the dinner table. Officials from the FDA would not speculate when the first of the applications, which are in various stages of development, would be approved.

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