Sunday, 14 March 2021, 5:39 pm
Consultation on global proposals to deregulate Gene
Editing will end on March 17th, with the public and food
producers largely in the dark about the major implications.
The coincidence in date for proposals in Australia and the
UK is a D-Day for food safety.[1] [2] D-Day will
mean Disaster Day, if products from Gene Editing are not
regulated for safety for people and the environment and
registered in a global database, said Jon Carapiet,
spokesman for GE-Free NZ.
Currently plants and animals
produced with Gene Editing are regulated like other GMOs.
Removing regulatory oversight will create a Wild West of
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