Judge Orders USDA to ID Biocrop Locales

[Lori Price CLG]

Judge Orders USDA to ID Biocrop Locales

A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Department of Agriculture to identify where four companies are performing open-field testing of genetically modified crops in Hawaii.

U.S. District Judge David Ezra on Wednesday said the government must reveal the locations to the environmental watchdog group Earthjustice and the Center for Food Safety, a nonprofit group that tracks food production technologies.

The groups sued the government in November, alleging that the agency has failed to properly regulate genetically engineered crops.

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Lori Price
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