Meeting Materials

• Agenda

• Follow-up to Information from Previous Advisory Panel Meetings
  • Testimony from Maine Aquaculture Innovation Center
  • Memo on Genetic Counselor Workforce
  • Memo on the Types of Genetic Engineering Prohibited in Organic Farming and Processing
• Overview of Regulatory Structure for Gene-editing in the Natural World
  • Congressional Research Service: Agricultural Biotechnology: Overview, Regulation, and Selected Policy Issues
  • 2017 Coordinated Framework for the Regulation of Biotechnology
  • The Unified Website for Biotechnology Regulation

• Overview of Regulatory Structure for Gene-editing in Medical Research
  • Regulatory Guardrails for Human Gene Editing (Dr. Frank Chessa)

• Gene-editing and the Humanities
  • Malaga Island and Eugenics (Kate McBrien, Maine State Archivist)
• Memo on Sample Legislative Study Reports

• Potential Recommendations from Meetings #1 and #2
  • Attachment #1: P.L. 2021, ch. 459 (Office of Affordable Health Care)
  • Attachment #2: Comment from Lisa Harvey-MacPherson of Northern Light Health
  • Attachment #3: Info. from Maine Dept. of Education on STEM in High Schools and CTEs
  • Attachment #4: Maine Technology Institute Targeted Technology Sectors
  • Attachment #5: Maine Seed Capital Tax Credit Program (FAME)

A video recording of the 9/21/2022 Advisory Panel meeting may be accessed through the following link: https://legislature.maine.gov/Audio/#209?event=86393&startDate=2022-09-21T09:00:00-04:00