IS USA POSITION TIGHTENING ON GMO?

The GMO labeling bill
has passed USA Congress.
In August, bill became a law!

Compilation by LimanGuerrilla

U.S. Regulation of Genetically Modified Crops

Regulation of GM crops in the United States is divided among three regulatory agencies: the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Each of these agencies regulates transgenic crops from a different perspective. 

EPA regulates biopesticides, including Bt toxins, under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA). If a crop is genetically engineered to carry a gene for a Bt toxin, EPA requires the developer to verify that the toxin is safe for the environment and conduct a food-safety analysis to ensure that the foreign protein is not allergenic. 

FDA is responsible for regulating the safety of GM crops that are eaten by humans or animals. According to a policy established in 1992, FDA considers most GM crops as “substantially equivalent” to non-GM crops. In such cases, GM crops are designated as “Generally Recognized as Safe” under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) and do not require pre-market approval. If, however, the insertion of a transgene into a food crop results in the expression of foreign proteins that differ significantly in structure, function, or quality from natural plant proteins and are potentially harmful to human health, FDA reserves the authority to apply more stringent provisions of FFDCA requiring the mandatory pre-market approval of food additives, whether or not they are the products of biotechnology. [Source: fas.org]

IS THE FUTURE AMERICA's FIRST LADY GOING TO BE FROM FORMER YUGOSLAVIA?

The way things go in the US elections the former model Melania Trump née Knavs could be the next Jackie Kennedy!

Who is the lady that could become the Second Foreign-Born First Lady?  This would be a second time in almost 200 years, after Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams — wife of the sixth U.S. President John Quincy Adams — who was in the Office from 1825 to 1829. Catherine was born near Tower Hill London, England.

Melania Knavs was born in SFR Yugoslavia in 1970, in Sevnica, in Slovenia's Lower Sava Valley. Knavs studied design and architecture at the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia. She began her modeling career at age 16, and at age 18 signed with a modeling agency in Milan, Italy working as a model for fashion houses in Milan and Paris before relocating to New York City in 1996.