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Industry's Responsibility to the Consumer¹

The Upjohn Company, Kalamazoo, MI 49001-0199

The responsibility of industry to the consumer is to provide products derived from biotechnology that are effective as labeled and safe for their intended use on animals, plants and in the environment. Moreover, food products from the animals and plants receiving the drugs or chemicals must be safe for human consumption. To fulfill these responsibilities, industry must provide an accurate label for the drug or chemical, ensure drug or chemical product consistency so that every batch of the drug or chemical is similar to every other batch, complete studies to document that the drug or chemical is safe for use in the animal or on the plant, complete studies designed to provide data to ensure that the food derived from the use of the drug or chemical is safe for human consumption and complete studies to document that the drug or chemical is safe for use in the environment. The process of requiring data to be derived from sound experimental science, completion of the studies under scrutiny by regulatory personnel and extensive scientific review of the data by regulatory personnel results in products derived from biotechnology that are safe and effective.

KEY WORDS: • biotechnology • food labeling • food safety • industry • consumer

¹ Presented as part of the Symposium: "Consumer Issues in Biotechnology: Genetically Engineered Foods" given at the Experimental Biology '95 meeting, Atlanta, GA, on April 10, 1995. This symposium was sponsored by the American Institute of Nutrition, American Society for Clinical Nutrition, Center for Food and Nutrition Policy, Georgetown University and the Office of Agricultural Biotechnology, U.S. Department of Agriculture. Guest editor for the symposium publication was John D. Fernstrom, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA.

² To whom correspondence should be addressed: Animal Health Division, The Upjohn Company, 7000 Portage Road, Kalamazoo, MI 49001-0199.