Source: GENETIC LITERACY PROJECT, 1/30/18



It’s hard enough devising an appropriate approach to regulate genetically modified organisms (GMOs). To complicate things further, scientists keep coming up with new techniques. How can governments regulate these new techniques and do it quickly enough and in a way that assures both consumer safety and fosters the development of new technologies?
On January 18, 2018, European Union (EU) Advocate General Michal Bobek took a first stab at how new mutagenesis techniques might be regulated.

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