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