The Food and Drugs Administration - Essay Example

E.g. if they would breed with regular salmon; however, the company involved has argued that these fish are sterile. The FDA is yet to decide if the genetically modified fish will carry a unique label.

Farmers in Arkansas are facing huge losses because their crops have been infested with a type of weed known as the ‘pigweed’. The weed is native to North America. Farmers have, over the years, been able to fight the weed using special chemicals. However, the substances suddenly stopped working. The weed has adapted to the herbicides used to kill them. The weed grows 3 inches a day, kills crops, and destroys farm machinery like combine harvesters and cotton pickers. The farmers have now resulted to the traditional way of dealing with weed (using manual labour) which is slow and expensive. Scientists believe the weed is now resistant to the herbicides used to kill it, and a new herbicide needs to be developed. This might take close to seven years.