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U.S. EPA oversight of pesticide traits in genetically modified plants and recent biotechnology innovation efforts
Before pesticides can be sold in the United States, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must evaluate them thoroughly to ensure that they meet U.S. federal pesticide registration standards for human health and the environment. EPA considers pesticidal substances produced and used...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9997634/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36909391 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2023.1126006 |
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author | Mendelsohn, Michael Pierce, Amanda A. Striegel, Wiebke |
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description | Before pesticides can be sold in the United States, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must evaluate them thoroughly to ensure that they meet U.S. federal pesticide registration standards for human health and the environment. EPA considers pesticidal substances produced and used in plants as pesticides and defined them in the regulations as “plant-incorporated protectants” (PIPs). PIPs that are created through conventional breeding are exempted from registration requirements, while those created through biotechnology require individual assessments and approval by EPA before they can be distributed or used. This currently includes PIPs that are identical to those that could be moved through conventional breeding but are created through biotechnology (e.g., through genome editing or via precision breeding techniques). EPA proposed an exemption in October 2020 to allow certain PIPs created through biotechnology to be exempt from EPA requirements for pesticides where those PIPs: 1) pose no greater risk than PIPs that EPA has already exempted, and 2) could have otherwise been created through conventional breeding. |
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spelling | pubmed-99976342023-03-10 U.S. EPA oversight of pesticide traits in genetically modified plants and recent biotechnology innovation efforts Mendelsohn, Michael Pierce, Amanda A. Striegel, Wiebke Front Plant Sci Plant Science Before pesticides can be sold in the United States, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must evaluate them thoroughly to ensure that they meet U.S. federal pesticide registration standards for human health and the environment. EPA considers pesticidal substances produced and used in plants as pesticides and defined them in the regulations as “plant-incorporated protectants” (PIPs). PIPs that are created through conventional breeding are exempted from registration requirements, while those created through biotechnology require individual assessments and approval by EPA before they can be distributed or used. This currently includes PIPs that are identical to those that could be moved through conventional breeding but are created through biotechnology (e.g., through genome editing or via precision breeding techniques). EPA proposed an exemption in October 2020 to allow certain PIPs created through biotechnology to be exempt from EPA requirements for pesticides where those PIPs: 1) pose no greater risk than PIPs that EPA has already exempted, and 2) could have otherwise been created through conventional breeding. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-02-23 /pmc/articles/PMC9997634/ /pubmed/36909391 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2023.1126006 Text en Copyright © 2023 Mendelsohn, Pierce and Striegel https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Plant Science Mendelsohn, Michael Pierce, Amanda A. Striegel, Wiebke U.S. EPA oversight of pesticide traits in genetically modified plants and recent biotechnology innovation efforts |
title | U.S. EPA oversight of pesticide traits in genetically modified plants and recent biotechnology innovation efforts |
title_full | U.S. EPA oversight of pesticide traits in genetically modified plants and recent biotechnology innovation efforts |
title_fullStr | U.S. EPA oversight of pesticide traits in genetically modified plants and recent biotechnology innovation efforts |
title_full_unstemmed | U.S. EPA oversight of pesticide traits in genetically modified plants and recent biotechnology innovation efforts |
title_short | U.S. EPA oversight of pesticide traits in genetically modified plants and recent biotechnology innovation efforts |
title_sort | u.s. epa oversight of pesticide traits in genetically modified plants and recent biotechnology innovation efforts |
topic | Plant Science |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9997634/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36909391 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2023.1126006 |
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