Source: GENETIC LITERACY PROJECT, 5/7/18


[Editor's note: The post is part of an editorial by the journal Nature Plants]
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The United States takes an essentially functional view of GMOs, not concerning itself with the technologies that created the animals or plants but rather what the effects of the manipulations have been. [Michel Bobek, Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union, recently reached] the opinion that “an organism obtained by mutagenesis can be a GMO” if it is altered in a way that does not occur naturally by mating and/or natural recombination.

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