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USDA
January 21, 2000
Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman today named 38 members to a newly-formed
USDA Advisory Committee on Agricultural Biotechnology. The Committee
will advise the Secretary on policy related to the creation, application,
marketability, trade and use of agricultural biotechnology.
"It is my hope that this group, which brings together people with
a range of perspectives and experiences, will engage in the kind of
thoughtful and civil debate on biotechnology that our country now needs,"
said Glickman. "The panel will examine many of the complex issues related
to agricultural biotechnology."
The Committee, authorized for two years, will hold its first meeting
on March 29-30 in Washington. The committee meeting will be open to
the public.
Secretary Glickman appointed Dennis Eckart, a former Congressman from
Ohio, as chairman of the committee. Eckart is currently an attorney
at Baker and Hostetler, LLP, in Washington, D.C. The Committee's appointed
members include:
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Dale E. Bauman -- Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor and
Professor of Nutritional Biochemistry, Department of Animal Science
and the Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University Ithaca,
New York
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Daniel R. Botkin -- Research Professor, Department
of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California,
Santa Barbara, California
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Carolyn Brickey -- Executive Director, National Campaign
for Pesticide Policy Reform, San Francisco, California; and member,
National Organic Standards Board
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R. Jeffrey Burkhardt -- Professor of Food and Resource
Economics, Food and Resource Economics Department, University of Florida,
Gainesville, Florida; and member, US/EU Committee on Ethics and Food
Biotechnology
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R. James Cook -- R. James Cook Endowed Chair in Wheat
Research, Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University,
Pullman, Washington
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James F. Dodson -- Farmer and seed sales representative
for Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc., Robstown, Texas; and Chairman,
Environmental Task Force, National Cotton Council
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Linda J. Fisher -- Vice President for Government and
Public Affairs, Monsanto Company, Washington, DC
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Carol T. Foreman -- Distinguished Fellow and Director,
the Food Policy Institute, Consumer Federation of America, Chevy Chase,
Maryland; and member, USDA Meat and Poultry Inspection Advisory Committee
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David J. Frederickson -- President, Minnesota Farmers
Union, St. Paul, Minnesota
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Rebecca J. Goldburg -- Senior Scientist, Environmental
Defense Fund, New York, New York
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Michael K. Hansen -- Research Associate, Consumer
Policy Institute, Consumers Union, Yonkers, New York
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Neil E. Harl -- Professor of Economics and Charles
F. Curtiss Distinguished Professor in Agriculture, Iowa State University,
Ames, Iowa
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Thomas J. Hoban -- Professor, Department of Sociology
and Anthropology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North
Carolina
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Marjorie A. Hoy -- Eminent Scholar and Davies, Fischer,
and Eckes Professor of Biological Control, Department of Entomology
and Nematology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
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Charles S. Johnson -- Executive Vice President, Dupont,
Wilmington, Delaware; and member, USDA-Foreign Agricultural Service
Emerging Market Committee
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Anne R. Kapuscinski -- Professor and Extension Specialist,
Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, University of Minnesota, St.
Paul, Minnesota
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Edward L. Korwek -- Attorney at Hogan and Hartson,
LLP, Washington, DC
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Sharan A. Lanini -- Farmer and Sales/Marketing Manager
for Growers Transplanting, Inc./Rocket Farms, Salinas, California;
and member, California Department of Food and Agriculture Organic
Food Act Advisory Committee
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Mark Lipson -- Organic Farmer and Policy Program Director,
Organic Farming Research Foundation, Davenport, California
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Mary-Howell Martens -- Organic Farmer and Adjunct
Biology Instructor, Finger Lakes Community College, Penn Yan, New
York
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Marshall A. Martin -- Professor, Department of Agricultural
Economics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana; and member,
National Agricultural Biotechnology Council
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J. Calman McCastlain -- Attorney at Pender, McCastlain,
and Pak, P.A.; farmer and grain elevator operator; and Director, Arkansas
Wheat Promotion Board, Little Rock, Arkansas
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E. Bruce McEvoy -- Chief Executive Officer, Sealed
Sweet Growers, Inc., Vero Beach, Florida --
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Margaret G. Mellon -- Director, Agriculture and Biotechnology
Program, Union of Concerned Scientists, Washington, D.C.
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Lorraine D. Nakai -- Entomologist and Farmer, Navajo
Agricultural Products Industry, Farmington, New Mexico
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Philip T. Nelson -- Farmer; Chairman, Livestock and
Dairy GRITS Committee, Illinois Farm Bureau; and Chairman, American
Farm Bureau Federation, Swine Advisory Committee, Seneca, Illinois
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Carol Nottenburg -- Attorney and Director of Intellectual
Property and Principal Scientist, Center for the Application of Molecular
Biology to International Agriculture, Red Hill, Australia
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Roger C. Pine -- Farmer and President, National Corn
Growers Association, Lawrence, Kansas
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Channapatna S. Prakash -- Professor of Plant Molecular
Genetics, College of Agriculture, Tuskegee University, Auburn, Alabama;
and member of the U.S. Sweetpotato Crop Advisory Committee
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Frank L. Sims -- President, North American Grain,
Cargill Inc., Minnetonka, Minnesota; and member, Chicago Board of
Trade
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J. Michael Sligh -- Director for Sustainable Agriculture,
Rural Advancement Foundation International--U.S.A., Chapel Hill, North
Carolina
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Jerome B. Slocum -- Farmer and President, North Mississippi
Grain Company, Cold Water, Mississippi
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Austin P. Sullivan, Jr. -- Senior Vice President for
Corporate Relations, General Mills, Inc., Plymouth, Minnesota; and
Chairman, Biotechnology Task Force, Grocery Manufacturers of America
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Virginia V. Weldon -- Physician and Director, Center
for the Study of American Business, Washington University, St. Louis,
Missouri; and member, President's Committee of Advisors on Science
and Technology
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David M. Winkles, Jr. -- Farmer and President, South
Carolina Farm Bureau, Sumter, South Carolina; and member, United Soybean
Board
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Margaret M. Wittenberg -- Vice-President of Government
and Public Affairs, Whole Foods Market, Inc., Dripping Springs, Texas;
and member, National Organic Standards Board
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Michael W. Yost -- Farmer and President, American
Soybean Association, Murdock, Minnesota
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