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Fatal flaws in agbiotech regulatory policies

Nature Biotechnology volume 25, pages 725–727 (2007)Cite this article

The major national regulatory regimes for agbiotech products fail to satisfy scientific legitimacy on several counts.

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  1. Alan McHughen is in the Department of Botany & Plant Sciences at the University of California, Riverside, California 92521-0124, USA. alanmc@ucr.edu,

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