"Under a policy developed in 1986, three lead federal agencies—the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA/APHIS), the Department of Health and Human Services’ Food and Drug Administration (HHS/FDA), and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)—have the responsibility for implementing the nation’s biotechnology regulatory framework. Within this framework, the U.S. regulatory process is constantly being reassessed and refined for all foods, both bioengineered and traditional."
—from Food Safety: Regulating Plant Agricultural Biotechnology in the United States

U.S. Government Agencies

• U.S. Regulatory Agencies Unified Biotechnology Web site
  • Database of Completed Regulatory Reviews
    
• USDA/Advisory Committee on Biotechnology and 21st Century Agriculture (AC21)
   
• USDA/Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service/Biotechnology Regulatory Service (BRS)
  (jurisdiction over the planting of genetically engineered plants)
  • Compliance and Enforcement
     
• USDA/Grain Inspection, Packers, and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA)
  (jurisdiction over voluntary process verification services and programs to standardize testing methodology for grains, oilseeds, and related agricultural products)
  • Exporting Grain (includes phytosanitary certification)
  • Rapid Test Kits
     
• Environmental Protection Agency
  (jurisdiction over planting and food and feed uses of pesticides engineered into plants)
   
• Food and Drug Administration
  (jurisdiction over food and feed uses of all foods from plants)
  • Center for Veterinary Medicine
    • Animal Feeds and Genetically Engineered Plants
  • Office of Food Additive Safety