Gene-edited food regulations: whether it's a plant or animal shouldn't matter, but it does now
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February 27, 2019
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(THE CONVERSATION) We eat mutations every day. All the vegetables, grains, fruits and meat humans consume as part of their diet are jam-packed with DNA speckled with mutations and beneficial variations.
In 2017, the United States Food and Drug Administration proposed to regulate a specific subset of these variations as drugs: in particular, those introduced into animal genomes using modern molecular techniques like gene editing. A drug is “an article (other than food) intended to a...
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