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Is The Biotech Food Craze Slowing Down?

  • February 03, 2005

The boom in new biotech crops appears to be waning, perhaps due to government regulation, according to a report by the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI). These days, the group reports new biotech crops can twice as long to be approved. That slowdown may likely explained by the dual approvals necessary at the federal level by the FDA and the U.S. Department of Agriculture to approve them. The slowdown, CSPI reports, has been particularly acute since 2000 when three or...