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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
14th and Independence Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20250 U.S.A.
Key telephone numbers and internet sites:

• Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)
  Biotechnology and Scientific Services
  Biotechnology Evaluation
  Telephone: (202) 720-2511
  http://www.aphis.usda.gov/biotech/
  http://www.aphis.usda.gov/biotech/usda_biotech.html
  http://www.aphis.usda.gov/biotech/OECD/usregs.htm

• Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS)
  Telephone: (202) 720-7115
  http://www.fas.usda.gov/

• Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS)
  Telephone: (202) 720-7943
  http://www.fsis.usda.gov/

• USDA Biotechnology Information Center
  http://www.nal.usda.gov/bic/

• USDA and Biotechnology
  http://www.usda.gov/news/bioqa.htm

• Ag Biotechnology Patents and New Technologies
  http://www.nal.usda.gov/bic/Biotech_Patents/

• Biotech-Related WWW Sites and Documents
  http://www.nal.usda.gov/bic/www.html
  
  

U.S. Department of Commerce
International Trade Administration (ITA)
Herbert Clark Hoover Building
14th Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20230 U.S.A.
Telephone: (202) 482-2867
http://www.ita.doc.gov/gmo/

U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
Office of Biological and Environmental Research
And Office of Science
Germantown, Maryland 20974 U.S.A.
Telephone: (301) 903-5805
http://www.er.doe.gov/production/ober/ober_top.html
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Center for Biotechnology
http://www.ornl.gov/cbt/cbt.htm

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
200 C Street, S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20204 U.S.A.
Telephone: (202) 205-4943
http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~lrd/biotechm.html
National Center for Biotechnology Information
National Library of Medicine
National Institutes of Health
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

United States Department of State
Office of International Information Programs
301 4th Street, S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20547 U.S.A.
Global Issues: Biotechnology
http://www.usia.gov/topical/global/biotech

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
401 M Street, S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20460-0003 U.S.A.
Telephone: (202) 260-6900
TSCA Biotechnology Program
http://www.epa.gov/opptintr/biotech/index.html

Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)
Winder Building
600 17th Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20508 U.S.A.
Telephone: (202) 395-3230
U.S. Regulation of Products Derived from Biotechnology
http://www.ustr.gov/reports/bioreg.pdf

 



NON-UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR)
The World Bank
1818 H Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20433 U.S.A.
Telephone: (202) 473-8951
Fax: (202) 473-8110
E-mail: [email protected]
http://www.cgiar.org/
http://www.cgiar.org/cgnas.htm

Codex Alimentarius Commission
http://www.fao.org/WAICENT/FAOINFO?ECONOMIC/ESN/codex/default.htm

Convention on Biological Diversity
http://www.biodiv.org

European Commission
Science, Research and Development (Biotechnology)
http://europa.eu.int/comm/dg12/biot1.html

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
http://www.oecd.org/ehs/service.htm


• Part I: Biotechnology and Medical Innovation: Socio-economic Assessment of the Technology, the Potential and the Products
  http://www.oecd.org/dsti/sti/s_t/biotech/prod/e_97-205.htm
  
• Part II: Biotechnology, Medical Innovation and the Economy: The Key Relationships
  http://www.oecd.org/dsti/s_t/biotech/prod/e_98-8.htm
  
• Modern Biotechnology and the OECD
  http://www.oecd.org/publications/Pol_brief/9903-eng.pdf
  
• Links to Other Biotechnology or Biosafety Resources on the Web
  http://www.oecd.org/ehs/biolinks.htm

United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
http://www.fao.org


• FAO and the Biosafety Protocol to the Convention on Biological Diversity
  http://www.fao.org/WAICENT/faoinfo/sustdev/RTdirect/rtre0034.htm
  
• Biotechnology and Food Safety
  http://www.fao.org/waicent/faoinfo/economic/esn/biotech/tabconts.htm

ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH ORGANIZATIONS

Academic Information: Biotechnology
http://www.academicinfo.net/biotech.html

Agricultural Biotechnology Support Project
Michigan State University
http://www.iia.msu.edu/absp/

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
http://www.cc.bbsrc.ac.uk/

Center for Agricultural Biotechnology
University of Maryland
http://www.umbi.umd.edu/~cab/

Center for Food and Nutrition Policy
Georgetown University
http://www.ceresnet.org

International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology
Trieste, Italy
http://www.icgeb.trieste.it/

National Agricultural Biotechnology Council
Cornell University
http://www.cals.cornell.edu:80/extension/nabc/

National Biotechnology Information Facility
New Mexico State University
http://www.nbif.org/indxbdy.html

University of Florida
Biotechnology Resources
http://gnv.ifas.ufl.edu/www/agator/htm/biotek.htm

Virtual Center of Biotechnology for the Americas
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
http://www.ibt.unam.mx/virtual.cgi

CONSUMER GROUPS AND INDUSTRY

Alliance for Bio-Integrity
http://www.bio-integrity.org

American Crop Protection Association
Biotechnology Committee
http://www.acpa.org/public/issues/biotech/committee.html

Biotechnology Industry Organization
http://www.bio.org/welcome.html

International Food Information Council
http://ificinfo.health.org/foodbiotech/whatexpertssay.htm

Biotechnology
Union of Concerned Scientists
http://www.ucsusa.org/agriculture/biotech.html

Biotechnology in Scotland
http://www.sebiotech.org.uk/

National Biotechnology Information Facility
Web Pages Linked to NBIF
http://www.nbif.org/About_NBIF/linksto.html

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