Milling & Baking News - May 10, 2016 - 21

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"STARTING FROM
SCRATCH"
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Export and Trade Issues

Groups worry about trade impact
of pending biotech rule changes
WASHINGTON - Five national grain from foreign governments has occurred.
The statement also referred to the need
trade organizations have cautioned the
U.S. Department of Agriculture's Ani- for APHIS to develop a clearly defined, spemal and Plant Health Inspection Service cific regulatory process for bioengineered
(APHIS) not to make "premature and agricultural products that have unique
ill-advised" changes to its biotechnology functional characteristics (e.g., output
regulations that may result in increased traits) that may adversely affect the funcdomestic and international market disrup- tionality and/or compositional and nutritional integrity of the product and downtions for grain and grain products.
The statement, drafted by the National stream users if the trait becomes present in
Grain and Feed Association, was in response the commingled, fungible supply chain at
to APHIS's notice announcing its intent to levels exceeding certain thresholds.
The organizations also faulted APHIS for
prepare an Environmental Impact Statement
concerning potential revisions to its Part 340 seemingly divorcing the review of its regulabiotechnology regulations. Under these tions that determine whether a biotechnology
regulations, APHIS makes science-based trait poses a plant pest or noxious weed risk
determinations of whether bioengineered from the Obama administration's ongoing review of the so-called Cotraits pose a plant pest or
ordinated Framework
noxious weed risk.
'APHIS must take the
for biotechnology that
The North American
involves other federal
Export Grain Associanecessary time and
agencies like the Food
tion, the Corn Refiners
make the necessary
and Drug AdministraAssociation, the North
effort to address
tion and the EnvironAmerican Millers' Asmental Protection Agensociation and the Nathe challenge of
cy, which have oversight
tional Oilseed Procesachieving regulatory
of other aspects of presors Association joined
coherence and
market reviews of biothe N.G.F.A. in stating
tech-enhanced products.
that the outcome of any
compatibility in the
Further, the joint staterevision to APHIS's bioglobal market.'
ment urged APHIS to
technology regulations
- Joint letter from leading
consider the concept of
should be either acceptgrains, oilseeds groups
"conditional deregulaable to or comparable
tion" in instances where
and compatible with
regulatory approaches used by competent scientific risk assessment has found a given
government authorities in important U.S. biotech-enhanced trait does not present a
markets so as to minimize or prevent the plant pest or noxious weed risk, but the trait
has not been approved in important U.S.
risk of market and trade disruptions.
"To create a truly workable biotech regu- export markets or has a functionally differlatory framework for the future, APHIS ent output trait. Under this concept, APHIS
must take the necessary time and make the would continue to provide permit-controlled
necessary effort to address the challenge of oversight over prudent stewardship and riskachieving regulatory coherence and compat- responsibility plans put in place by biotechibility in the global market," the organiza- nology owners/providers to minimize the
tions stated. "We believe that any changes to potential for traits that may pose market disU.S. biotech regulatory processes - includ- ruptions from becoming commingled in the
ing Part 340 - should be considered only fungible commodity supply stream.
The groups noted that the "conditional
after advance, robust and thorough discussions with competent government authori- deregulation" concept was consistent with
ties in countries that represent important the U.S.D.A.'s obligation to consider the
U.S. export markets, during which align- potential economic impacts on U.S. agriment in regulatory approaches is achieved culture of commercialization of biotechto the maximum extent possible.... This is enhanced traits. It also would contribute
even more important currently, given ongo- to preserving the efficiencies and costing and potentially productive discussions competitiveness of the fungible, comoccurring between the private sector and mingled U.S. and global grain and oilseed
various foreign governments on whether supply, in which commodities from variand how to address the regulatory treatment ous regions of the world may be sourced in
of important new breeding technologies," a timely and efficient manner in response
to customer demand without concern over
such as gene-editing techniques.
The groups said to date there was no indi- regulatory status, thereby enhancing food
cation that adequate consultations or buy-in security. MBN
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