Concerns over the “new GMO” regulations

By: Trademagazin editor Date: 2023. 05. 19. 10:30

Concerns are growing that the new food gene-editing (New Genomic Techniques or NGT) regulation in the European Union might be too lax.

Concerns are growing over new GMOs

This article is available for reading in Trade magazin 2023/5

More than 50 food and environmental organisations have teamed up to oppose EU proposals that would allow NGT foods to enter the market without going through the present burdensome GMO approval process. Some fear that NGT foods could circumnavigate GMO regulation. Opponents of the new regulation have gathered more than 420,000 signatures against deregulating what they call “new GMOs”. //