Regulatory Agencies

Ag Biotech 3

Name:_____________________________________Date:__________________

Directions: Use the links found in Google Classroom to help you answer the following
questions!

Which federal agencies have jurisdiction over?

1. Viral resistance in a food crop _________
2. Herbicide tolerance in a food crop__________
3. Herbicide tolerance in an ornamental crop______
4. Modified oil content in a food crop_______
5. Modified flower color in an ornamental crop_____
International Biosafety Committee
6. What does an IBC do?____________________________________________________________
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7. What entity requires a company to have an IBC?____________________
Federal Acts/Laws
8. What was the purpose of the Federal Plant Pest Act of 1957?____________________________
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9. How was the act changed in 2000?
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10. What does the FIFRA stand for?
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11. What does the FIFRA act regulate?
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12. What must an applicant show in order to register a pesticide under FIFRA?
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13. How does FIFRA define the term “unreasonable adverse effects on the environment”?
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14. FIFRA was amended twice, list both years in which it was amended._______________________
15. What was the original intent of FIFRA?
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16. What was created in 1970 that affected the FIFRA?
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17. After this happened in 1970 the primary objective of FIFRA was to ensure what?
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18. Scroll down the page to “Criminal Enforcement”. What happens if a
registrant/applicant/producer knowingly violates a provision of FIFRA?____________________
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19. What happens if a private applicator knowingly violates any provision of FIFRA?_____________
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20. What federal law laid the cornerstone for the modern FDA?
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21. For the law in question #20, what did it NOT provide authority over?
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22. Watch the video “The American Chamber of Horrors” and write down one thing about the
video that you find
interesting._________________________________________________________
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23. What is FDCA?_________________________________________________________________
24. What did FDCA do?_____________________________________________________________
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25. Look at the “American Chamber of Horrors” picture gallery. Pick one product and provide a
short description of its promises and its horrors. _____________________________________
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26. What does the abbreviation TSCA stand for?
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27. In what year did TSCA go into effect?__________Under what government agency?__________
28. What does the TSCA provide the authority to do?
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29. What is excluded from the TSCA?
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30. What six chemical substances receive special attention under TSCA?______________________
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Government Regulatory Agencies
31. List the three main Federal agencies responsible for regulating the safe use of genetically
engineered organisms.__________________________________________________________
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32. What does the abbreviation APHIS stand for?________________________________________
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33. What does the abbreviation FDA stand for?_________________________________________
34. What does the abbreviation EPA stand for?_________________________________________
 35. What is the primary responsibility of the FDA?________________________________________
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36. What act give the FDA their power?_________________________________________________
37. What agency regulates the introduction of certain organisms that have been developed using
genetic engineering that may pose a risk to plant health?_______Through what program do they
accomplish this?_______________________________________________________________________
38. BRS derives its authority to enforce regulations from which two provisions?________________
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39. What does SECURE stand for in the SECURE rule?______________________________________
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40. When was the secure rule published?____________It is a revision to a rule that was put in place
for biotechnology regulations in what year?_________________
41. Why does APHIS regulate organisms developed using genetic engineering?__________________
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42. In what year was the Coordinated Framework for the Regulation of Biotechnology established?
______ What does it describe?__________________________________________________
43. What standard did Congress pass to require labeling of GMO’s?___________________________
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44. When did the standard take effect?__________________________________________________
45. How does the standard define bioengineered foods?____________________________________
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46. What does the standard require food makers, importers and certain retailers to do?__________
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47. What three things must appear on food labels according to the standard?_________________
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48. Click on the “approved methods” blue wording. Use that page to answer this question and the
next one. Who will NOT be required to bear bioengineered food labels even if he product contains
bioengineered ingredients?___________________________________________________________
49. What is the difference in meaning of the “bioengineered” and “derived from bioengineering
labels”?___________________________________________________________________________
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50. Use the link on Google Classroom “List of Bioengineered Foods”. Click on one of the crops that you
find interesting. Summarize below the “production” section of your selection.
Production:

Summarize the “Food Safety Reviews” section of your selection below.

Food Safety Reviews:

List the producing country or countries of your selected crop:___________________________________

List the trait(s) for your selected crop:______________________________________________________