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World map of GMO agriculture (hectares) [1] The regulation of genetic engineering varies widely by country. Countries such as the United States, Canada, Lebanon and Egypt use substantial equivalence as the starting point when assessing safety, while many countries such as those in the European Union, Brazil and China authorize GMO cultivation on a case-by-case basis.
Senate resolution S.744 as originally introduced on 17 March 2015 contained no language to regulate bioengineered foods. [8] A bill entitled "Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act of 2015" was received in the Senate on 24 July 2015 and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry (ANF), which resulted in the amendments to Public Law 114-216 seen now; this was done on 7 July ...
Diamond v. Chakrabarty, 447 U.S. 303 (1980), was a United States Supreme Court case dealing with whether genetically modified organisms can be patented. [8] The Court held that a living, man-made micro-organism is patentable subject matter as a "manufacture" or "composition of matter" within the meaning of the Patent Act of 1952.
McLean v. Arkansas Board of Education, 529 F. Supp. 1255 (E.D. Ark. 1982), was a 1981 legal case in the US state of Arkansas. [1]A lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas by various parents, religious groups and organizations, biologists, and others who argued that the Arkansas state law known as the Balanced Treatment for Creation-Science and ...
Black-led organizations, on average, have revenues that are 24% less than those of their white-led counterparts, according to a 2020 report by Echoing Green, a group that funds social impact ...
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders declared Thursday that the state won't comply with a federal regulation that seeks to protect the rights of transgender students in the nation’s schools ...
Following reorganization in 2019, Arkansas state government's executive branch contains fifteen cabinet-level departments. Many formerly independent departments were consolidated as "divisions" under newly created departments under a shared services model.
Private schools are exempt from some parts of Iowa's sweeping new education law governing LGBTQ instruction and "age appropriate" books.