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Nancy Kavazanjian Nancy Kavazanjian
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Topics: Food/Nutrition, GMO's,
John LaRose Jr. John LaRose Jr.
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Topics: GMO's, Ag Europe, Genes /Genetics, Government / Policies, Education,

Horizon Europe to fund research on genome editing in agriculture

Horizon Europe is to allocate €5 million for projects aimed at understanding the benefits and risks of genome editing technologies in agriculture over the next two years, according to a leaked draft work programme. The move is in support of the ‘Farm to Fork’ plan to reduce the use of fertilisers by 30 per cent and turn 25 per cent of agricultural land over to organic farming. To reach these objectives, the Commission says the EU needs to “enable major advances in the life sciences and biotechnology, in new genomic techniques, such as gene/genome editing.” Plans for the €5 million call come after EU agriculture ministers called on the Commission last October to enable the use of “new innovative ingredients and techniques” to boost sustainable food production, once they are shown to be safe for humans, animals and the environment. The headline figure for the call is only indicative, and the Commission could fund proposals that go beyond this figure. Also last October, French scientist Emmanuelle Charpentier, director at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin, and her collaboration partner Jennifer Doudna, were awarded the Nobel prize in chemistry “for the development of a method for genome editing.” But as things stand, precision breeding of plants with gene editing technologies cannot be used in the EU, following a 2018 ruling by the European Court of Justice (ECJ), which founds genome editing is subject to the 2001 EU directive banning genetically modified organisms (GMOs). In an early post-Brexit move, the UK last month launched an industry consultation on gene editing, as it seeks to move away from EU regulations on genetically modified organisms (GMOs). Depending on the outcome, there will be a second consultation on changing the definition of a GMO. The UK government view is that organisms produced by gene editing or by other genetic technologies, should not be regulated as GMOs if they could have been produced by traditional breeding methods. The proposed €5...

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TOPIC(S): Corn/Maize, Agriculture US, GMO's, Research, Ag Asia / Pacific,

02/09/2021 SOURCE: www.agriculture.com

China finds illegal work on genetically modified corn, cotton seed

BEIJING, Feb 9 (Reuters) - China's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs said on Tuesday it had found eight companies and research institutes that illegally produced or carried out research on genetically modified (GM) seeds. The companies included two seed marketing companies in northeast Liaoning province and two corn breeders in northwest Xinjiang province who were producing GM corn seed. The ministry said seeds were confiscated and the companies fined. China does not permit the production or planting of GM corn.

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TOPIC(S): Food/Nutrition, GMO's, FDA, USDA, Consumer/Retail,
Randy Krotz Randy Krotz
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Topics: Agriculture US, Agriculture Global, GMO's, CRISPR/Gene Editing, Trade (Commodities), Coronavirus/COVID,

This is an extremely informative article regarding the pandemic and previous high-profile public health concerns and their impact on consumers.

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TOPIC(S): GMO's, CRISPR/Gene Editing, Ag Europe,

01/25/2021 SOURCE: www.potatonewstoday.com

France backs non-GMO regulation for crop gene-editing in EU

According to a Reuters report, France sees crops developed using gene-editing techniques as different to genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and opposes a European Union court decision to put the…

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TOPIC(S): Agriculture Global, GMO's, CRISPR/Gene Editing, Ag Europe,

01/20/2021 SOURCE: www.fwi.co.uk

Gene-edited crops not the same as GMs, says France - Farmers Weekly

France is on a collision course with the European Union after it said gene-edited crops should not be classified as genetically modified organisms (GMs).

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TOPIC(S): Agriculture US, Agriculture Global, GMO's, Biotech,

01/19/2021 SOURCE: allianceforscience.cornell.edu

10 Myths About GMOs - Alliance for Science

[Download this page as a PDF]   [En Español: 10 mitos sobre los OGMs] GMO stands for “genetically modified organism.” It most commonly refers to organisms—often plants—that have been modified to achieve desired traits, like drought-tolerance and pest-resistance, using recombinant DNA techniques or genetic engineering (GE). It’s a misleading term, since we’ve been modifying the […]

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TOPIC(S): Corn/Maize, GMO's, Ag Africa, Weather,

01/18/2021 SOURCE: geneticliteracyproject.org

Africa biotech setback: Tanzania suspends GM crop research, ending trials of insect-resistant corn and virus-resistant cassava

Agriculture minister Prof Adolf Mkenda made the announcement on January 12 at the Tanzania Agricultural Research Institute (TARI) Mikocheni centre in Dar es

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