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6 Minn. J.L. Sci. & Tech. 457 (2004-2005)
Glowing in the Dark: How America's First Transgenic Animal Escaped Regulation

handle is hein.journals/mipr6 and id is 477 raw text is: Articles Glowing in the Dark: How America's First Transgenic Animal Escaped Regulation Rebecca M. Bratspies If you don't want to scare the public, you'd better have an agency responsible, and you'd better have clear-cut rules, and you'd better mandate that they be followed .... We don't have that.1 One fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish Black Fish, blue fish, old fish, new fish.2 The first commercially available transgenic3 (or genetically modified GM) animal went on sale in the United States on January 5, 2004. The GloFish is an aquarium zebra danio (Brachydanio rerio) that was genetically engineered to glow in * Associate Professor, CUNY School of Law. This paper has benefited from discussion at the CUNY Faculty Forum, and the World Aquaculture Society's Aquaculture America 2005. Special thanks go to Bill Taylor for suggesting this project and to Tracy Dobson, Ruthann Robson, B. Allen Schulz, and Donna Lee for reading and commenting on earlier versions of this paper, and to Laura Rabiee for research assistance. 1. Arthur Caplan, Chair of the University of Pennsylvania Center for Medical Ethics, as quoted in Gregory M. Lamb, GloFish Zoom to Market, CHRISTIAN SCI. MONITOR, Jan. 22, 2004, at 15. 2. DR. SEUSS, ONE FISH TWO FISH RED FISH BLUE FISH 3-4 (1960). 3. The term transgenic refers to an individual with an introduced or novel genetic sequence integrated into its genetic makeup. See FOOD AND AGRIC. ORG. OF THE UNITED NATIONS (FAO), FAO GLOSSARY OF BIOTECHNOLOGY FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE, at http://www.fao.orglbiotech/fimd-formalpha-n.asp (last visited Mar. 18, 2005). Typically this term refers to an organism that has genes from another organism inserted into its genome. That said, some scientists are conducting research into autotransgenic organisms-with addition copies of their own species' genes inserted. For a discussion of research involving autotransgenic organisms, see T.J. Pandian, Guidelines for Research and Utilization of Genetically Modified Fish, 81 CURRENT SCI. 1172 (2001), available at http://www.ias.ac.in/currsci (last visited Apr. 10, 2005).

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