The Federal Government of the United States of America has a coordinated, risk-based system to ensure new biotechnology products are safe for the environment and human and animal health. Established as a formal policy in 1986, the Coordinated Framework for Regulation of Biotechnology describes the Federal system for evaluating products developed using modern biotechnology. The Coordinated Framework is based upon health and safety laws developed to address specific product classes. The U.S. Government has written new regulations, policies and guidance to implement these laws for biotechnology as products developed. This framework has allowed the United States to build upon agency experience with organisms and products developed using conventional techniques.
This website focuses on the agricultural products of modern biotechnology. At this time, the searchable database available on this site only covers genetically engineered crop plants intended for food or feed that have completed all recommended or required reviews for food, feed or planting use in the United States.
This NBII web site was developed with support from the Agricultural Biotechnology Support Fund
of the Department of State Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs.
Continuing support for this website is provided by U.S. Department of Agriculture,
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Food and Drug Administration and
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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Center for Biological Informatics of the U.S. Geological Survey
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