The Pros And Cons Of Protecting And Regulating Gmos

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APHIS works on protecting and promoting U.S. agricultural health, regulating GMOs and many other activities. If problems are detected and diseases, APHIS organized the affected material and eliminate them. All regulated introductions of GMOs must be authorized by APHIS under either its permitting or notification procedures.

- Permit Procedure
All GMOs must pass the permit procedure first, and this must include all of the information about the GMOs to show if it causes a harmful effect to the environment or not, if it is having a lot of these risks APHIS will not allowed to inter the environment.

- Notification Procedure
In this stage, they put some certain criteria for GMOs, that is must be safe and not causing a harmful effect. The genetic

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