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Agriculture

Feb. 16, 2007

Judge Orders Harder Look at Engineered Alfalfa

A federal judge threw out the U.S. Department of Agriculture's approval of genetically modified alfalfa, ruling the agency violated the law when it failed to take a "hard look" at the effects of the engineered product on conventional varieties of the crop.

By Max Follmer
Daily Journal Staff Writer

      A federal judge threw out the U.S. Department of Agriculture's approval of genetically modified alfalfa, ruling the agency violated the law when it failed to take a "hard look" at the effects of the engineered product on conventional varieties of the crop.
      U.S. District Court Judge Charles R. Breyer of San Francisco on Tuesday described the USDA ...

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