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GMO salmon two months from introduction: AquaBounty fights anti-biotechnology misinformation as it gears up for April launch of fast-growing, sustainable AquAdvantage salmon
AquaBounty's genetically engineered, fast-growing salmon could be sold at US restaurants and grocery stores as soon as this April. The ...
As AquaBounty readies US rollout of GMO salmon, scientists hope for jumpstart of biotech animal research
A genetically modified salmon will become the first GM food animal to go on sale in the US, according to ...
Podcast: GM salmon coming soon? Food ingredients you can’t pronounce are safe; Monsanto patent lawsuit myths
Monsanto never sued farmers because their fields were accidentally contaminated with the company's GM seed. AquaBounty's genetically engineered AquAdvantage salmon ...
Viewpoint: 3 biotech foods you can’t buy at Costco thanks to anti-GMO activism
The opponents of this method of improving food have been successful in suppressing even the most logical applications ...
AquaBounty ‘on track’ to sell GM salmon by year’s end, despite court ruling calling for more environmental impact data
The FDA should have given more consideration to the risks genetically modified AquAdvantage salmon posed to wild populations before approving ...
Judge orders FDA to assess potential impact of escaped GM AquAdvantage salmon on wild fish
The Food and Drug Administration must evaluate the risks posed if genetically engineered salmon escape into the wild, a federal ...
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 ...
Judge may reject FDA AquaBounty GMO salmon approval, citing risk to ‘local ecology’
At a hearing [August 25], U.S. District Judge Vincent Chhabria said he’s concerned that AquaBounty, the biotech company behind the ...
Viewpoint: Fast-growing GMO salmon poised to hit US stores in 2020, but why did it take 30 years?
In a few months, the first transgenic (GMO) salmon will be sold in the US, produced in an AquaBounty farms ...
Viewpoint: Fish farming has a sustainability problem and genetic engineering might be the solution
As the world endures the impacts of a rapidly changing climate—sea level rise, extreme weather events, warming and acidifying oceans ...
11 GMO, gene-edited animals and plants that will help us battle hunger and disease
The Genetic modification of foods, organisms, and animals, is very controversial, for quite obvious reasons. And yet, the practice has ...
AquaBounty aims to win over consumers before its GMO salmon hits US markets in 2020
Only in the past five years has it become possible to raise thousands of healthy fish so far from the ...
GMO salmon labeling rule that producer says ‘targets’ its product added by Sen. Murkowski to 2020 spending bill
Genetically modified salmon supplier AquaBounty is criticizing “vague” new requirements for GM-salmon labeling that were included in the Fiscal Year ...
AquaBounty seeks overseas expansion, anticipating global demand for GMO AquAdvantage salmon
For more than two decades, AquaBounty has been developing its genetically modified AquAdvantage salmon, which the company plans to grow ...
Viewpoint: ‘Anti-GMO lobby’ campaign against AquAdvantage salmon won’t end as fish heads for American plates
It’s been an 11-year, $30 million regulatory journey for genetically modified salmon to end up on American plates, and it ...
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
On a winding road on the outskirts of a small Rust Belt town in eastern Indiana, a fish hatchery is ...
Podcast: Former FDA scientist Henry Miller says misguided regulation keeps safe biotech products off the market
In 1982, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the first "GMO" pharmaceutical drug in the world, a new ...
GMO AquAdvantage salmon labeling questions resurface
AquaBounty Technologies, creator of the first-ever salmon genetically engineered for commercial production, doesn’t have to notify Canadian buyers that its ...
Deciphering US plans for regulating biotech animal breeding
An overview of the regulation of biotech breeding as it relates to animals, covering some open and unsettled issues. ...
Viewpoint: Outgoing FDA chief Scott Gottlieb scored some wins, but dropped the ball on food labeling, gene-edited plants and animals
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 ...
Video: The case for growing (and eating) sustainable GMO AquAdvantage salmon
Recently, a company called AquaBounty earned U.S. approval to begin selling their genetically engineered salmon in grocery stores. The salmon ...
Canada green lights commercial production of AquAdvantage GMO salmon at Prince Edward Island facility
Environment Canada has approved the commercial production of genetically-modified salmon produced in a facility in eastern [Prince Edward Island], says ...
Podcast: AquaBounty to begin raising GMO AquAdvantage salmon in US as soon as April 2019
A land-based fish farm in East Central Indiana will begin raising AquAdvantage Salmon, genetically engineered Atlantic salmon, as soon as ...
5 things to know about genetically engineered AquAdvantage salmon coming soon to US grocery stores
Animal genomics expert Alison Van Eenennaam explains the significance of the FDA’s move ...
US Senator Todd Young eager to sample just-approved sustainable AquaBounty GMO fish
After touring a land-based fish farm that is preparing to raise genetically engineered salmon, U.S. Senator Todd Young is ready ...
FDA lifts 2016 import ban on GMO AquAdvantage salmon, confirms fish safe to eat
The Food & Drug Administration announced [March 8] that it will be deactivating a 2016 import alert that prevented genetically ...