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U.S. Department of Agriculture's APHIS announces comment period for Scotts/Monsanto's GE creeping bentgrass petition


Washington, DC, USA
January 6, 2016

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is making available for public comment a petition from Scotts’ Company and Monsanto Company seeking deregulation for creeping bentgrass genetically engineered (GE) for resistance to the herbicide glyphosate. The petition will be available for public review and comment for 60 days starting January 8, 2016.  Comments received on or before March 8, 2016, will be considered.

Comments may be submitted from January 8, 2016 – March 8, 2016, at www.regulations.gov by entering Docket No. APHIS-2015-0096 in the search box. You can also refer back to our website on January 8, 2016, for links to the FR notice and to make a comment.

Petition No. 15-300-01p (This is a large, 4MB file, and may take a few minutes to download.)



More news from:
    . USDA - APHIS (Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service)
    . Monsanto Company
    . The Scotts Company


Website: http://www.aphis.usda.gov/

Published: January 6, 2016

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