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Audits

Last Modified: Jun 2, 2020

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Government Accountability Office (GAO) Audits

GENETICALLY ENGINEERED CROPS:
USDA Needs to Enhance Oversight and Better Understand Impacts of Unintended Mixing with Other Crops
GAO-16-241: Published: Mar 15, 2016. Publicly Released: Apr 14, 2016

USDA Office of the Inspector General (OIG) Audits

Audit Report
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
Controls Over APHIS' Introduction of Genetically Engineered Organisms
Audit 50601-0001-32
September 2015

Audit Report
United States Department of Agriculture
Controls Over Issuance of Genetically Engineered Animal and Insect Research
Audit 50601-16-Te
May 2011

Audit Report
United States Department of Agriculture
Controls Over Importation of Transgenic Plants and Animals
Audit 50601-17-Te December 2008

Audit Report
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
Controls Over Issuance of Genetically Engineered Organism Release Permits
Audit 50601-8-Te
December 2005

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