On Aug. 22, 1995, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved the commercial production and distribution of the Bt…
On Dec. 12, 2018, the scientists behind the Horse Genome Project released scientific standards for genetic testing. The…
In 1993, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) declared genetically-engineered foods are not inherently dangerous and do…
On Feb. 29, 1992, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced new food labeling rules. The purpose…
On Nov. 8, 1990, the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act (NLEA) was signed into law by President George…
In 1989, the Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU) Center for Ethics in Health Care was created to bring…
On Oct. 15, 1987, the Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences (DCCPS) from the National Cancer Institute…
On Jun. 8, 1987, Advanced Genetic Sciences announced that its Frostban (Ice-minus) bacteria successfully protected strawberries from below-freezing…
On May 26, 1987, vandals uprooted approximately 3,000 potato plants being studied with ice-minus bacterium on a half-acre…
In 1987, Dr. Robert Thornburg at Iowa State University (ISU) prepared transgenic tobacco plants expressing a gene that…
On Apr. 12, 1985, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that between March 22,…
In 1985, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN), the remnant of the effort…
In 1984, the USDA and the University of California announce plans to create the Plant Gene Expression Center,…
In 1983, Pat Mooney’s Law of the Seed was released, published by the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation, which is…
In 1983, Barbara McClintock was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her discovery of mobile…
In 1982, National Research Council, after a study of the relationship of diet and nutrition to cancer, developed…
On Dec. 4, 1981, the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) released a report on the National Plant Germplasm…
On Dec. 12, 1980, the U.S. Congress enacted the Bayh-Dole Act (P.L. 96-517, Patent and Trademark Act Amendments of…
In 1980, Schering-Plough Animal Health introduced Intra-Trac vaccines for kennel cough in dogs. For years, Iowa State University…
In 1967, chronic wasting disease (CWD) was first observed in a captive deer in Colorado where it was…
In 1975, only eight institutions worldwide, mostly in developed countries, have the cold-storage capability necessary for long-term seed…
In 1974, n an attempt to bring order to the loosely structured state/federal new-crops research program, the National…
On Dec. 24, 1970, the U.S. Congress enacted the Plant Variety Protection Act (PVPA) to extend patent protection…
In 1970, the Southern Corn Leaf Blight (SCLB) sweeps across the South, destroying 15% of the U.S. corn…
In 1969, The FAO’s Crop Ecology Unit sponsored the first attempt to develop a standardized, computerized data bank…
On Aug. 24, 1966, the U.S. Congress passed legislation that became known as the Animal Welfare Act (P.L….
In 1966, U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) eradicated New World screwworm (NWS) from the United States using sterile…
On Apr. 8, 1965, the Association for Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care (AAALAC) filed its articles of incorporation…
In 1963, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the…
On Sept. 23, 1959, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushcev visited the Iowa corn farm of seedman Roswell Garst to…