John Tierney: “In fact, I quoted from it in my report; and it also talks about the need to make sure that our regulatory system is, in…”

“In fact, I quoted from it in my report; and it also talks about the need to make sure that our regulatory system is, in fact, adequate to give confidence to these foods that are coming out and to make sure that the public has confidence. All this does is say that the National Academy of Sciences would help us by reviewing what would lift that level of confidence, what types of studies would be adequate, who should do the studies and how should they be conducted and what type of regulatory system should we have, because whether we like it or not there is a large part of our population out there and a great part of our market who do not have confidence in the current regulatory scheme. It either needs to be reaffirmed, or it needs to have some proposal out there that will allow everybody, not just the scientists, not just us and everybody else, but to have confidence in the system.”