These CAST services have influenced the direction and speed of Congressional decisions and actions on important issues. CAST publications on topics of national importance also have significant impact. Detailed information is available on the CAST web site . They included testimony by Roger Beachy on agricultural biotechnology and Arther Kelman for EPA's proposed Plant Pesticide Rule. CAST is collaborating with the International Food Information Council and the Georgetown University Center for Food and Nutrition Policy in an effort to disseminate scientific information and facts about current food biotechnology issues to the national media.
Summaries are available on the CAST web site.
Additional information about these or other issue papers or reports can be found at the CAST web site . Two new societies joined CAST in 1999. New members were the American Society for Nutritional Science and the American Veterinary Medical Association. This brings the number of societies in CAST to 38. The Conversations program, funded through a primary grant from the Kellogg Foundation, continues to provide opportunities for all CAST professional societies to grow in the quality of programs they furnish to their individual members.