Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) Comments on Bt Re-registration, submitted September 20, 2001

• Appendix 2: Benbrook IRM Analysis -- New Science Shows that Current Bt-Corn and Cotton IRM Plans will Not Significantly Delay Resistance to Bt- Based Pest Management Technologies, Comments Submitted on Behalf of: Environmental Defense and the The Union of Concerned Scientists August 20, 2001
• Appendix 3: Benbrook Benefits Analysis -- EPA Continues to Overstate the Benefits of Bt Crops and Ignores Important Costs, Comments Submitted on Behalf of: Environmental Defense and the The Union of Concerned Scientists August 20, 2001
  • Table 1. Percent U.S. National Corn Acres Treated with Insecticides by Target Pest
  • Table 2. National Cotton Insecticide Acre Treatments by Likely Target Pest Category
  • Table 3. National Cotton Insecticide Pounds Applied by Likely Target Pest Category
  • For a complete Excel Workbook containing State Level Use tables, please e-mail a request to: karen@hillnet.com
  
  
  

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  Posted on September 9, 2001

  New Section on the Reregistration of Bt Crops

  Comments from The Center for Food Safety, Docket Control #OPP-00678B, August 30, 2001

  'Bt' Means Big Trouble for Nation's Crops, New York Times, August 30, 2001

  Comments from Dr. Karen Oberhauser, University of Minnesota, Department of Ecology, Docket Control #OPP-00678B, September 1, 2001

  
  
  

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  In defense of the precautionary principle, Correspondence in Nature Biotechnology, Vol. 19, No. 9, pages 811-812, September 2001

  Biohazards: The Next Generation? -- Genetically Engineering Crop Plants that Manufacture Industrial and Pharmaceutical Proteins (Revised version, 2001) written and researched by Brian Tokar (Institute for Social Ecology) for the Edmonds Institute

  Straight Talk About Biotechnology, a new educational website, sponsored by DuPont. Straight Talk provides information about biotechnology in an environment that encourages open discussion. Straight Talk includes a newsroom that is updated each day, as well as up-to-date and apparently complete 'Links and Resources'.

  
  
  

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