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APHIS Requests Comments on Draft Assessment of Certain GE Cotton

The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is advising the public it has prepared a draft environmental assessment to address a petition from Syngenta Biotechnology, Inc. seeking a determination of nonregulated status for its genetically engineered cotton that is resistant…

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to lepidopteran insect damage (Event COT67B). APHIS’ plant pest risk assessment concluded that Event COT67B is unlikely to pose a plant pest risk. APHIS' FR notice of its plant pest risk assessment and Sygenta’s petition is available here. Comments are due by July 11, 2011.