GMO salmon two months from introduction: AquaBounty fights anti-biotechnology misinformation as it gears up for April launch of fast-growing, sustainable AquAdvantage salmon

GMO salmon two months from introduction: AquaBounty fights anti-biotechnology misinformation as it gears up for April launch of fast-growing, sustainable AquAdvantage salmon

Cameron English, Jon Entine | 
AquaBounty's genetically engineered, fast-growing salmon could be sold at US restaurants and grocery stores as soon as this April. The ...
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As AquaBounty readies US rollout of GMO salmon, scientists hope for jumpstart of biotech animal research

Antonio Regalado | 
A genetically modified salmon will become the first GM food animal to go on sale in the US, according to ...
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Podcast: GM salmon coming soon? Food ingredients you can’t pronounce are safe; Monsanto patent lawsuit myths

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | 
Monsanto never sued farmers because their fields were accidentally contaminated with the company's GM seed. AquaBounty's genetically engineered AquAdvantage salmon ...
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Viewpoint: 3 biotech foods you can’t buy at Costco thanks to anti-GMO activism

Steve Savage | 
The opponents of this method of improving food have been successful in suppressing even the most logical applications ...
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AquaBounty ‘on track’ to sell GM salmon by year’s end, despite court ruling calling for more environmental impact data

Megan Poinsky | 
The FDA should have given more consideration to the risks genetically modified AquAdvantage salmon posed to wild populations before approving ...
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Judge orders FDA to assess potential impact of escaped GM AquAdvantage salmon on wild fish

Steve Davies | 
The Food and Drug Administration must evaluate the risks posed if genetically engineered salmon escape into the wild, a federal ...
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AquaBounty identifies Kentucky location as possible site for 10,000 metric ton GMO salmon farm

[Aquabounty] announced that it has identified Mayfield, Kentucky as the potential location for its planned large-scale farm for the Company’s ...
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Judge may reject FDA AquaBounty GMO salmon approval, citing risk to ‘local ecology’

Maria Dinzeo | 
At a hearing [August 25], U.S. District Judge Vincent Chhabria said he’s concerned that AquaBounty, the biotech company behind the ...
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Viewpoint: Fast-growing GMO salmon poised to hit US stores in 2020, but why did it take 30 years?

Lluís Montoliu | 
In a few months, the first transgenic (GMO) salmon will be sold in the US, produced in an AquaBounty farms ...
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Viewpoint: Fish farming has a sustainability problem and genetic engineering might be the solution

Rupesh Paudyal | 
As the world endures the impacts of a rapidly changing climate—sea level rise, extreme weather events, warming and acidifying oceans ...
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11 GMO, gene-edited animals and plants that will help us battle hunger and disease

Chris Young | 
The Genetic modification of foods, organisms, and animals, is very controversial, for quite obvious reasons. And yet, the practice has ...
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AquaBounty aims to win over consumers before its GMO salmon hits US markets in 2020

Amy Nordrum | 
Only in the past five years has it become possible to raise thousands of healthy fish so far from the ...
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GMO salmon labeling rule that producer says ‘targets’ its product added by Sen. Murkowski to 2020 spending bill

Christine Blank | 
Genetically modified salmon supplier AquaBounty is criticizing “vague” new requirements for GM-salmon labeling that were included in the Fiscal Year ...
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AquaBounty seeks overseas expansion, anticipating global demand for GMO AquAdvantage salmon

Chris Chase | 
For more than two decades, AquaBounty has been developing its genetically modified AquAdvantage salmon, which the company plans to grow ...
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Viewpoint: ‘Anti-GMO lobby’ campaign against AquAdvantage salmon won’t end as fish heads for American plates

Chris Clayton | 
It’s been an 11-year, $30 million regulatory journey for genetically modified salmon to end up on American plates, and it ...
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US college cafeterias, restaurants could be first to serve controversial GMO AquAdvantage salmon

Inside an Indiana aquafarming complex, thousands of salmon eggs genetically modified to grow faster than normal are hatching into tiny ...
GMO salmon production begins as first batch of bioengineered eggs arrive at new US facility despite activist opposition

GMO salmon production begins as first batch of bioengineered eggs arrive at new US facility despite activist opposition

Tony Briscoe | 
On a winding road on the outskirts of a small Rust Belt town in eastern Indiana, a fish hatchery is ...
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Podcast: Former FDA scientist Henry Miller says misguided regulation keeps safe biotech products off the market

Cameron English, Henry Miller | 
In 1982, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first "GMO" pharmaceutical drug in the world, a new ...
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GMO AquAdvantage salmon labeling questions resurface

Jason Huffman | 
AquaBounty Technologies, creator of the first-ever salmon genetically engineered for commercial production, doesn’t have to notify Canadian buyers that its ...
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Deciphering US plans for regulating biotech animal breeding

Marc Brazeau | 
An overview of the regulation of biotech breeding as it relates to animals, covering some open and unsettled issues.  ...
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Viewpoint: Outgoing FDA chief Scott Gottlieb scored some wins, but dropped the ball on food labeling, gene-edited plants and animals

Val Giddings | 
Gottlieb’s policy proposals for FDA oversight of gene-edited plants and animals were as inexplicable as they were inconsistent with longstanding U.S. policy ...
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Video: The case for growing (and eating) sustainable GMO AquAdvantage salmon

Nick Saik | 
Recently, a company called AquaBounty earned U.S. approval to begin selling their genetically engineered salmon in grocery stores. The salmon ...
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Canada green lights commercial production of AquAdvantage GMO salmon at Prince Edward Island facility

Kevin Yarr | 
Environment Canada has approved the commercial production of genetically-modified salmon produced in a facility in eastern [Prince Edward Island], says ...
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Podcast: AquaBounty to begin raising GMO AquAdvantage salmon in US as soon as April 2019

Amie Simpson, Sylvia Wulf | 
A land-based fish farm in East Central Indiana will begin raising AquAdvantage Salmon, genetically engineered Atlantic salmon, as soon as ...
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5 things to know about genetically engineered AquAdvantage salmon coming soon to US grocery stores

Alison Van Eenennaam | 
Animal genomics expert Alison Van Eenennaam explains the significance of the FDA’s move ...
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US Senator Todd Young eager to sample just-approved sustainable AquaBounty GMO fish

Seth Slabaugh | 
After touring a land-based fish farm that is preparing to raise genetically engineered salmon, U.S. Senator Todd Young is ready ...
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FDA lifts 2016 import ban on GMO AquAdvantage salmon, confirms fish safe to eat

Jacqui Fatka | 
The Food & Drug Administration announced [March 8] that it will be deactivating a 2016 import alert that prevented genetically ...
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