These questions and many more will be discussed Monday, April 2, at a daylong symposium in San Diego during the 221st national meeting of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society. The meeting runs April 1-5.
Biotech crops are more common in the United States than elsewhere in the world.
The first was Calgene's Flavr Savr tomato, approved in 1994. Yet, according to the International Food Information Council, just 36 percent of Americans are aware that the food in their supermarkets may be produced using biotechnology. Accordingly, little is known about its long-term effects on human health and the environment.