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Crops No Longer Regulated By USDA
Data is supplied by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)

The database may be searched by one or more categories. For each category chosen, you can select a specific item or items from a list, or specify a value. Do not choose "All" as search criteria; rather, simply do not choose that particular category to search and all records in it will automatically be selected.

Organism - the common name of the host, or genetically modified organism, for which data is available. APHIS calls this the "regulated article".

Phenotype/Phenotype Category - the nature of the introduced trait. Each is assigned a two-letter code which describes the category into which the trait falls, as determined by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS):

Phenotype Category Key:
AP - agronomic properties BR - bacterial resistance FR - fungal resistance
GC - genetic containment HT - herbicide tolerance IR - insect resistance
MG - marker gene OO - other PQ - product quality
SM - selectable marker VR - virus resistance


Gene - the name of the introduced gene. Search results will indicate if the gene is used as a selectable marker (/SM)

Institution - the company or university that submitted the petition.

Receive Date - the date (or range of dates) on which the petition was received. The search will retrieve all records received since the date and prior to the date you specify.
The default "since:" date is the earliest date available, the "prior to:" date is the current date.

Status - Petitions are usually classified as issued, pending, refused, or withdrawn. The issue date is given if the petition was approved.

APHIS Number - A reference number assigned by APHIS. A single APHIS number, or range of APHIS numbers may be used as a search key. Records are numbered yy-day-##, where:
yy = year;
day = day of the year (001 to 366);
## = the nth petition received that day.
For example, 92 will find all petitions for 1992; 96-001 will find all petitions for the first day of 1996, 93-244-02 refers to the second petition received on the 244th day of 1993.

NOTE: Records of Petitions for Deregulation have an Environmental Assessment document that may be accessed for viewing onscreen or downloaded. Many of these EAs are 20 pages or more, and can be downloaded for printing locally in text or Wordperfect format.