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Biotechnology
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Uses the tools of modern genetics to enhance beneficial traits of plants, animals and microorganisms for food production. By selecting specific genes to add or extract, the result is a more precise method of plant breeding, and offers farmers more ways to improve crops.
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| Information from the EPA concerning chemical interacation with the endocrine system. |
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Food
Quality Protection Act of 1996 is one of the most
important food safety laws to ever pass Congress.
The law substantially changes the way pesticides
are evaluated scientifically for their health
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| The Great Lakes Information Center serves up Great Lakes news, a regional events calendar, a laws and policy reference guide, and communication tools including GLIN's popular e-mail list: glin-announce. |
| The Groundwater Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to educating and motivating people to care for and about groundwater. |
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PestsFacts.org is a not-for profit web site that provides science-based information about the responsible use of pesticides to manage the threat pests pose to human health and safety. |
Southern Crop Production Association has acompany membership that includes over 95 percent of the firms which manufacture, formulate and distribute crop protection products in fifteen southern states. |
RAPID, Inc is a not-for-profit organization that develops and promotes commonly supported standards, transaction sets, directories, processes, and databases to enable electronic connectivity throughout the agriculture industry. RAPID's expertise is centered on the electronic commerce needs of agri businesses involved in crop and plant protection products, plant nutrients, grain, feed, seed, ag machinery, ag petroleum, animal health, other ag products, and the specialties industries (lawn care, turf, ornamentals, and indoor pest control). |
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