Minutes, Agricultural Biotechnology Research Advisory Committee, Working Group on Aquatic Biotechnology and Environmental Safety : September 28, 1994.

  • United States. Agricultural Biotechnology Research Advisory Committee. Working Group on Aquatic Biotechnology and Environmental Safety.
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    U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Agricultural Biotechnology Research Advisory Committee Working Group on Aquatic Biotechnology and Environmental Safety Minutes of Meeting September 28, 1994 The Agricultural Biotechnology Research Advisory Committee (ABRAC) Working Group on Aquatic Biotechnology and Environmental Safety (henceforth referred to as the Working Group) met on September 28, 1994, in Room 108-A of the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington, DC. Dr. Anne Kapuscinski chaired the meeting. The meeting was open to the public and had been announced in the Federal Register. Members of the Working Group in attendance were Dr. Anne Kapuscinski, chair; Dr. Susan Ford; Dr. Stanley Pierce; Dr. Harold Kincaid; Dr. Rex Dunham; Dr. George Spangler; Dr. Roger Mann; and Dr. Eric Hallerman. Persons in attendance from the Office of Agricultural Biotechnology (OAB) were Alvin L. Young, Daniel Jones, and Maryln Cordle. Dr. José Amador, Assistant Secretary Designate for Science and Education, also attended the meeting. Others in attendance were Charles Erikson, U.S. Food and Drug Administration; James Lackey, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA; Martin Fitzpatrick, Oregon State University; David MacKenzie, National Biological Impact Assessment Program, USDA; Carmen McCormack, American Veterinary Medical Association; Pat Basu, Food Safety and Inspection Service, USDA; Charles Brown, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA; Jane Rissler, Union of Concerned Scientists; Madilyn Fletcher, University of Maryland; Gary Jensen, Extension Service, USDA; Lee Stevens, Sea Grant Association; Mery] Broussard, Cooperative State Research Service, USDA; Althaea Langston, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA; and Jim Crosson, U.S. General Accounting Office. Call to Order and Preliminaries Dr. Kapuscinski called the meeting to order at 9:00 a.m. She introduced Dr. Alvin Young, Executive Secretary of the ABRAC and Director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Office of Agricultural Biotechnology (OAB). Dr. Young recounted a brief history of the ABRAC for the Working Group. He said that the ABRAC’s first task after it was established in 1988 was to develop a set of Proposed Guidelines for Research Involving Planned Introduction into the Environment of Genetically Modified Organisms (henceforth referred to as the Guidelines). The ABRAC later realized