Source: GENETIC LITERACY PROJECT, 1/20/22



On July 19, 2021, the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced an important proposal through the Federal Register to exempt organisms with three additional types of modifications developed through gene-editing technologies, such as the clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-associated-proteins (CAS) system. If the proposal was officially adopted after public comments were considered, it would make most gene-edited plants, such as fruit crops, exempt from the federal regulatory requirements imposed on classic genetically modified organisms.

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