On September 12, 2022, President Biden issued an “Executive Order on Advancing Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Innovation for a Sustainable, Safe, and Secure American Bioeconomy.” While much of the Executive Order stresses health, medicine, energy and biological data, there are specific sections that apply to agriculture and food.
This comment to the Environmental Protection Agency expresses the CSPI Biotechnology Project's perspective on the agency's draft proposal to improve current insect resistance management (IRM) strategies for certain Lepidopteran pests of Bt crops.