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+==== 1992 FDA NEW ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR BIOTECH FOODS ====
+Sept. 10, 1992                                 Brad Stone - (202) 205-4144
+               FDA ESTABLISHES NEW ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR FOODS
+FDA has established a committee of outside experts to advise the agency on
+food safety and nutrition issues.  While FDA has long relied on advisory
+committees in other areas under its purview, this is the first such committee
+established to work with the agency on these issues.
+    The following can be used to answer questions:
+As one of about 40 advisory committees that provide expert analysis on
+products the agency regulates, the Food Advisory Committee will be convened by
+FDA at least twice a year to evaluate and comment on specific issues of
+importance to the agency.  Although the committee's recommendations will not
+be binding, they will be carefully considered in the agency's decisionmaking.
+The committee will generally conduct its work in open meetings at which
+interested parties may make presentations.  Advance notice of meetings will
+appear in the Federal Register.  The first meeting is being planned for later
+in the fall.
+The committee will consist of 20 voting members and 4 non-voting industry
+consultants.  The voting members are from a variety of disciplines including
+life sciences, medicine, law, academia, public health and consumer protection.
+Edward N. Brandt, Jr., M.D., a professor at the University of
+Oklahoma's Department of Health Administration and Policy and former HHS
+Assistant Secretary for Health, will be the chair.
+    Committee members and their affiliations are as follows:
+VOTING MEMBERS --
+      * Edward N. Brant., Jr., M.D., Professor, Department of Health
+  *     Administration and Policy, University of Oklahoma
+  *
+  *     Dennis M. Bier, M.D., Director, Pediatric Clinical Research, Washington
+  *     University School of Medicine
+  *
+  *     Paul A. Blake, M.D., Chief, Enteric Diseases Branch, Centers for Disease
+  *     Control
+  *
+  *     Myrtle L. Brown, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, retired, Virginia Polytechnic
+  *     Institute and State University
+  *
+  *     **Rita R. Colwell, Ph.D.**, President, Maryland [[:Biotechnology Institute]],
+  *     University of Maryland
+  *
+  *     Jeanne P. Goldberg, Ph.D, Associate Professor, Tufts University School of
+  *     Medicine
+  *
+  *     Peter Greenwald, M.D., Director, Division of Cancer Prevention & Control,
+  *     National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health
+  *
+  *     David R. Lineback, Ph.D., Professor & Head, Department of Food Science,
+  *     North Carolina State University
+  *
+  *     John Liston, Ph.D., Chairman, Institute for Food Science & Technology,
+  *     School of Fisheries, University of Washington
+  *
+  *     Laurene Mascola, M.D., Chief, Acute Communicable Disease Control Unit,
+  *     Los Angeles County Department of Health Services
+  *
+  *     Martha Rhodes Roberts, Ph.D., Deputy Commissioner for Food Safety, Florida
+  *     Department of Agriculture
+  *
+  *     Robert D. Sowards, Jr., Chief, Food Branch, Texas Department of Health
+  *
+  *     Jeffrey Steingarten, Food Critic and Contributing Editor, Vogue Magazine
+  *
+  *     Donald L. White, D.V.M., M.P.H., Associate Administrator, Food Safety and
+  *     Inspection Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture
+  *
+  *     *Marsha N. Cohen, J.D., Professor of Law, Hastings College of Law,
+  *     University of California
+  *
+  *     *Evelyn F. Crayton, Ed.D., Associate Professor, Extension Specialist,
+  *     Auburn University
+  *
+  *     *Joan Dye Gussow, Ed.D., Professor of Nutrition & Education, Teachers
+  *     College, Columbia University
+  *
+  *     *Marion Nestle, Ph.D., Professor and Chair, Department of Nutrition,
+  *     Food & Hotel Management, New York University
+  *
+  *     The two remaining voting members are expected to be named shortly.
+  *
+  * NON-VOTING CONSULTANTS --
+  *
+  *     Lester M. Crawford, D.V.M., Ph.D., Executive Vice President, Scientific
+  *     Affairs, National Food Processors Association
+  *
+  *     Andrew G. Ebert, Ph.D., Senior Vice President, Robert H. Kellen Company
+  *
+  *     Kristen McNutt, Ph.D., President, Consumer Choices, Inc.
+  *
+  *     Gilbert A. Leveille, Ph.D., Vice President, Nabisco Foods Group  ((https://web.archive.org/web/19970506023101/http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/ANSWERS/ANS00424.html))
+==== Destroying Precautionary Principle ====
+On May 13, 2003, U.S. Trade Representative [[:Robert Zoellick]] and Agriculture Secretary [[:Ann Veneman]] announced that the United States, Argentina, Canada, and Egypt would file a WTO case against the European Union over its illegal 5-year moratorium on approving agricultural biotech products.
+=== House Resolution 252 HR252 ===
+This an important discussion. Maybe it would be reasonable, Mr.  Speaker, to start out trying to explain what is biotechnology?
+Gregor Mendel discovered dominant and recessive traits in plants in the mid 19th century. He started taking two quality plants and crossing them to see if you could come out with an improved variety. So we have
+had cross-breeding, we have had hybrid breeding ever since. Now we have finished gene cataloguing of an agricultural plant called the Arabidopsis, a mustard plant.
+But with 25,000 genes, you just took your chances when mixing two plants together. Sometimes the product turned out poisonous or allergenic. Sometimes it was very undesirable for a raft of other reasons.
+**Now we have the scientific technology to pick out one single gene and decide what characteristics are going to evolve from that gene, and instead of taking your chances by mixing 25,000 or 30,000 genes of two plants, you pick out one gene because you want a certain characteristic. You put it into that other plant and predetermine what is going to happen as a result**.
+Now, there is a lot of scare of what might happen generations from now.
+[[Page 14269]]
+Look, the possibilities in developing countries are so tremendous.
+That is why our whip mentioned that the day after tomorrow I am holding a hearing on biotechnology. The Speaker is going to lead off the testimony in that hearing on the potential and safety of biotechnology.
+We are going to have [[:Rita Calwell]] from [[:NSF]] come to tell us about the implementation of what we put in my NSF bill in terms of working with African scientists, developing products that are going to help their
+particular country. And if we get into Africa, eventually, science and biotechnology are going to prevail. We are going to have Mr. Natsios, the administrator of AID, say how important it is that we do not
+restrict this technology for developing countries.
+Vote for this resolution and vote to let science, not emotion, rule the future of agricultural biotechnology.
+On May 12th, the Speaker of the House and members of Congress joined with the Bush Administration to challenge the European Union's import ban on genetically modified (GM) crops. WTO rules, while allowing countries to reject imports on the basis of health and environmental concerns, require that any such policy be supported by scientific evidence.
+However, the EU has refused to process new applications for trade of transgenic food crops since 1998 without even attempting to demonstrate any compelling scientific reasons. It is estimated that over $300 million annually in U.S. corn exports alone are being lost.
+Even EU Enviroment Commissioner [[:Margot Wallstrom]] has admitted that, ``We have already waited too long to act. The moratorium is illegal and not justified.''
+While the EU stance on GM crops is an unfair economic burden on American farmers, it is also an unjust burden on the world's poorest continent. With approximately 180 million undernourished people, Africa stands to benefit tremendously from GM crops.
+The EU is exploiting Africa's dependence on the EU market to stall acceptance of GM crops. For example, with its population literally starving last year, Zambia rejected 23,000 metric tons of U.S. food aid because Europe might reject future Zambian corn exports. EU pressure is even impeding research on new transgenic crop varieties important to bringing Africa closer to sustainability.
+The Speaker of the House, [[:USAID]] Administrator, and leading scientists will testify at my Research Subcommittee hearing this Thursday. We will examine barriers to plant biotechnology in Africa and new government programs supporting partnerships with African scientists in Africa.
+The U.S. challenge moves us one step closer to removing unfair barriers that hurt American farmers and deny the people of Africa a tool for combating hunger. Please support H. Res. 252. ((https://web.archive.org/web/20220912215130/https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CRECB-2003-pt11/html/CRECB-2003-pt11-Pg14266.htm))
 ==== Biography ====