The USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is poised to take the first official step towards a long-awaited revamp of its regulations of genetically modified plants. The agency said on Tuesday that it intended to publish a formal notice this week that it has begun drafting an environmental impact statement (EIS) needed to start the process. The EIS will evaluate a “range of alternatives that the agency can take as it works to update the rules”, the APHIS explained. “The notice also invites the public to comment on the range of alternatives that APHIS will study in the draft EIS, along with definitions that APHIS plans to use in the draft EIS.”
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