Specialty Crops Regulatory
Initiative
Recommendations from a workshop, “Public
Research and the Regulatory Review of Small-Market
(Specialty) Biotechnology-Derived Crops,” held
November 8-9, 2004, resulted in a new Specialty
Crops Regulatory Initiative. Over 125 federal,
academic and private-sector leaders at the
workshop discussed how the public research
sector, regulatory agencies and the private
sector could collaborate to facilitate the
regulatory review of specialty (small market)
biotechnology-derived crops. The workshop
was organized through the leadership and
planning of several USDA agencies – the
Cooperative State Research, Education and
Extension Service, the Agricultural Research
Service, and the Animal Plant Health Inspection
Service—along with Langston University
and the National Center for Food and Agricultural
Policy (NCFAP). NCFAP is a Washington-based
non-profit policy research organization.
CSREES, USDA National Program Leaders Ann
Marie Thro (Plant Breeding and Genomics);
William R. Goldner (Small Business Innovation
Research); Eldon Ortman, (IPA), Edward Kaleikau
(Plant Genome); and Daniel Jones (Biotechnology),
along with representatives from NCFAP, Langston
University, ARS, /and APHIS, served on the
Steering Committee. Ann Marie Thro and William
Goldner of CSREES served as Committee Co-Chairs.
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