Wasn the 1986 federal Coordinated Framework a political stratagem of the Reagan administration to exempt biotechnology from regulation?
A. No. The Coordinated Framework (51 Fed. Reg. 23303) asserts the scope of well-established statutory authorities to include, rather than exempt, products produced by modern biotechnology within traditional regulatory jurisdictions. Recognizing that individual products, and not the processes by which they are developed, are the ultimate source of risks and benefits and the focus of regulatory action, the Coordinated Framework clarified the existing authority of FDA, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Agriculture to regulate biotech plants and animals under the established jurisdictions of the Food, Drug and Cosmetics Act (FDA), the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide and the Toxic Substances Control Acts (EPA), and the Plant Pest Protection, the Plant Quarantine and the Virus, Serum and Toxin Acts (USDA). The scientific rationale in support of the product-based focus of the Coordinated Framework has been endorsed in three separate reviews by the Nation
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