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Biotech panel set up in US may help allay public fears

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The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) is to set up a biotechnology advisory committee made up of scientists, farmers, industry groups, environmentalists and members of the public. The move has been made partly in the hope that it may head off the kind of controversy over genetically modified (GM) foods that has raged recently in Europe.

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Reichhardt, T. Biotech panel set up in US may help allay public fears. Nature 399, 508 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1038/21001

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