Các tài liệu trong phần này bao gồm các giấy tờ vị trí không chỉ được trình bày bởi các nhóm lợi ích cho các cơ quan chính phủ trên các quy tắc được đề xuất, nhưng các vật liệu khác, đã chế biến và phân phối đến công chúng bằng các cơ quan chính phủ mình. Đầu tiên là tài liệu chính phủ: một bài phát biểu rồi Bí thư Nông nghiệp Dan Glickman Câu lạc bộ Báo chí Quốc gia vào ngày 13 tháng 7 năm 1999, một cuộc phỏng vấn với Ủy viên Quản lý Thực phẩm. | Section II Regulation Documents 2002 by CRC Press LLC 42 Environmental Politics Casebook Genetically Modified Foods The documents in this section include not only position papers presented by interest groups to governmental agencies on proposed rules but other materials prepared and distributed to the public by government agencies themselves. The first four are government documents a speech delivered by then Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman to the National Press Club on July 13 1999 an interview with then Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration Jane Hen-ney on the issues raised by bioengineered foods published in the FDA s Consumer Magazine in early 2000 a fact sheet issued by the . Department of State on March 21 2000 on the importance of bioengineered food in solving hunger problems here and abroad and a formal announcement by the Department of Health and Human Services through the Office of the White House that the FDA will strengthen its regulatory protocol on genetically modified foods. The next piece is a detailed description of the process by which plant biotechnology is regulated prepared by the American Crop Protection Association. It is followed by a sample of responses by interest groups to the FDA s proposed rules governing genetically engineered foods from the Center for Food Safety the Grocery Manufacturers of America Inc. the American Farm Bureau the Environmental Research Foundation Greenpeace and the Competitive Enterprise Institute. 2002 by CRC Press LLC Discussion The government documents reproduced here though not technically part of the regulatory process demonstrate that administrative agencies are not dispassionate participants in the regulatory process but in an important sense advocates themselves. While paying lip service to the need to assure the public of the safety and efficacy of genetically altered foods and to the principle of informed consent all betray a clear bias in favor of the ultimate benefits of the .
