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APHIS extends comment period on plan to overhaul biotech regs

[/title][fusion_text]Thursday, March 3rd 2016

The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is allowing another 45 days for comments on its plans to overhaul its biotechnology regulations and the scope of a planned environmental impact statement. After receiving requests from industry and environmental groups for a 60-day extension, APHIS today said it would extend the deadline for comments from March 7 to April 21. The 24 groups included the American Farm Bureau Federation, American Seed Trade Association, Biotechnology Innovation Organization, Grocery Manufacturers Association and National Association of State Departments of Agriculture. Friends of the Earth, Food & Water Watch, the Center for Food Safety and Center for Biological Diversity also asked for a 60-day extension.

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