Informational hearing, Senate Select Committee on International Trade Policy and State Legislation
Subtitle: biotechnology, international trade policy, and the risks to California legislative power : transcript of hearing
By: Senate Select Committee on International Trade Policy and State Legislation
Publisher: Senate Publications
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Sacramento, CA
Language: eng
Subjects: Genetically modified foods; Government policy; Agricultural biotechnology
Other titles: Informational hearing on biotechnology, international trade policy, and the risks to California legislative power, transcript of hearing; Biotechnology, international trade policy, and the risks to California legislative power
Notes: "June 24, 2003, State Capitol, Sacramento, Room 3191, 1:00-3:30 P.M."

Senate Publications stock no.: 1227-S.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Testimony transcript; title: Should California take a more active role in the assessment, monitoring, and oversight of biotechnology?  -- Nick Vucinich; title: Food fight or sovereignty debate? : the potential implications of the US-EU trade dispute over genetically engineered food for California's regulatory authority  -- presentation by Matt Porterfield; title: U.S. and cooperating countries file WTO case against EU moratorium on biotech foods and crops  -- Office of the United States Trade Representative, United States Department of Agriculture; title: U.S. vs. EU : an examination of the trade issues surrounding genetically modified food  -- [Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology]; title: How science and technology can help raise agricultural productivity, spur econmic growth and alleviate world hunger and poverty  -- Ministerial Conference & Expo on Agricultural Science and Technology; title: European Commission regrets US decision to file WTO case on GMOs as misguided and unnecessary  -- [European Commission]; title: 2001-2002 legislative activity related to agricultural biotechnology  -- Pew Initiative on Food and Technology; title: California Department of Food and Agriculture, food biotechnology  -- Food Biotechnology Task Force; title: Benefits and risks of food biotechnology [executive summary]  -- California Council on Science and Technology; title: California at the crossroads : the impacts of genetic engineering on California's agriculture [executive summary]  -- Doreen Stabinsky; title: Voices from the south : the Third World debunks corporate myths on genetically engineered crops : [introduction]  -- [by Anuradha Mittal]; title: State farms key in fight over biotech  -- Mike Lee; title: Heartland wrestles with biotechnology  -- by Justin Gillis; title: Globalization and GMOs  -- by Tom Hayden; title: Democracy's new challenge  -- by Mark C. Gordon; title: Localizaing globalization : can California and other states block plans to expand NAFTA?  -- by Chris Mooney -- News article; title: Officials seek to preserve states rules on food safety -- by Kristi Heim.