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By Steven Hedlund, SeaFood Business News SAN DIEGO (April 17) - The National Fisheries Institute has taken a position on legislation that would boost regulation of genetically modified organisms by the Food and Drug Administration, including subjecting GMOs to the FDA's food-additive petition process and labeling requirements.

Editorial / Tom Dennis for the Grand Forks Herald / Wednesday, April 12, 2000 OUR VIEW: "Value added" process comes to high-tech life thanks to a forward-thinking farmers' co-op. For a glimpse of what could be North Dakota's bright future, read the first "Mailbag" letter to the right. And no, we're not talking about drafting Gov. Ed Schafer for a third term.

April 17, 2000 / Reuters / Paule Bonjean

By Kiley Russell / Associated Press FRESNO, Calif. -- Farming giant J.G. Boswell has won approval to turn a remote stretch of farmland in central California into the country's largest dairy complex after more than a year of legal and political maneuvering.

April 17, 2000 / PA News / Rachael Crofts, Consumer Affairs Correspondent, PA News The U.K. Co-op was cited as announcing today its eggs are to be produced from chickens fed on a diet free from genetically modified ingredients or artificial colours.

April 16, 2000 / Sunday Advocate / Jennifer A. Thomson and Zhang-Liang / Reference No.: 3212 Recent world conferences on agricultural biotechnology have made it unmistakably clear that if governments foil the growth of this technology, mankind will be denied solutions to a host of problems that plague many nations, particularly in the developing world.

April 18, 2000 / The Associated Press / ROXANA HEGEMAN WICHITA, Kan. -- Under new U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulations imposed this spring, farmers can, according to this story, only use 80 percent of their corn acreage to plant the Bt variety of biotech corn, which contains a bacteria gene that makes it toxic to pests.

April 17, 2000 / from a press release ST. LOUIS -- Recent announcements regarding significant breakthroughs in human and rice genomics provide a major boost for corn genome research, the National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) said this week.