Biotech livestock: USDA, FDA diverge over how to regulate genetically engineered animals
Story Date: 4/24/2018

 

Source: GENETIC LITERACY PROJECT, 4/23/18

A disease that kills millions of pigs a year may soon meet its match — if two federal agencies can agree on the idea.
Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome virus is one of the latest examples of a condition that scientists believe they can beat with genetic engineering, and one that's caught up in a disagreement between the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) over how quickly such methods should be approved, and by whom.

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