1.  Although the bioengineered food was approved in other parts of Europe, the Italian government in August cited possible health risks as the reason for the ban.

2.  And that would be even more unfriendly to exports of bioengineered foods.

3.  After months of international concern about bioengineered food, Washington will be on the defensive.

4.  After months of international protest and concern about bioengineered food, Washington will be even more on the defensive.

5.  All of this suggests that the resistance to bioengineered foods in Europe is unlikely to become popular in the United States.

6.  But critics argue the US Food and Drug Administration should play a bigger role monitoring the safety of bioengineered food.

7.  But critics of agricultural biotechnology say that such companies, which underestimated the public reaction to bioengineered foods, are repeating the mistake.

8.  But just as the production of bioengineered foods has been controversial, molecular farming is already raising some safety and environmental concerns.

9.  But the agency maintains that all types of bioengineered food and feed marketed in the United States have gone through its consultation program before being sold to the public.

10.  Despite a decade of efforts to genetically modify a wide range of animals, not a single bioengineered animal food product has been approved.