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Nature 399, 508 (10 June 1999) | doi:10.1038/21001

Biotech panel set up in US may help allay public fears

Tony Reichhardt

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) is to set up a biotechnology advisory committee made up of scientists, farmers, industry groups, environmentalists and members of the public. The move has been made partly in the hope that it may head off the kind of controversy over genetically modified (GM) foods that has raged recently in Europe.