The production of transgenic livestock has the opportunity to significantly improve human health, enhance nutrition, protect the environment, increase animal welfare, and decrease livestock disease.

Purdue animal ... of a transgenic organism is that the transgene, though rare, can spread in a natural population. An increase in transgene frequency is often assumed to be unlikely because transgenic ...

Transgenic animals, such as cows producing human therapeutic proteins ... and are subject to regulations to ensure their safe and responsible application. Some key issues include: To address these ...

It took FDA some time to decide exactly how to regulate the products from a transgenic animal and the agency ultimately decided to classify the transgene product as a drug and to regulate it as such.