The Farm Bureau supports the continued development of agricultural products enhanced through biotechnology. We support increased efforts through biotechnology to increase the marketability of agricultural products, address environmental concerns, to increase farm income by decreasing input costs and improving product quality. Farm Bureau wishes to ensure the availability of international markets for products of agricultural biotechnology.
Food biotechnology is the use of genetic science to create new products from plants and animals.
Biotechnology allows scientists to identify an individual gene that governs a desired trait, copy that gene and insert the copy into other plant cells. This genetic modification can be used, for example, to create crops that grow faster, ripen more slowly, or are resistant to disease and pests. International Concerns In the European Union, biotech products are subject to multiple regulations. First, imports of products must be approved by the Environmental Committee. Biotech products used in food products must be cleared through the Novel Foods regulations.