A House of Lords committee has raised concerns about proposed regulatory changes related to the release of gene edited plants for use in field trials in England, announced last month.
UK feed and agrisupply industry representatives, the AIC, said there are a great number of challenges facing agriculture and food production in the UK that more efficient breeding technologies could help address.
Leading supermarket chain, Co-op, has expressed caution over the UK government’s review into the future legislative approach to gene editing of crops and livestock in England.
Crops developed using new plant breeding techniques (NBTs) should not be legislated in the same way as genetically-modified organisms (GMs), says France’s agriculture minister.
The Agricultural Industries Confederation (AIC) has responded positively to the UK government’s new consultation, launched today, on the future legislative approach to gene editing of crops and livestock in England.
The first-ever public detection method for a gene-edited crop has been successfully developed and published, according to a group of non-governmental organizations, non-GMO food associations and a food retailer behind the development.
Anti-GMO groups in the UK are calling for a rejection of amendment to the UK's Agriculture Bill that plans to deregulate a range of genome editing techniques.
We talk to UK feed and ag inputs representatives, AIC, about the trade group's efforts to further the sustainability agenda with its members, who are responsible for some £9bn (US$11.8bn) of farm trade,
EU feed industry representatives were among 22 food chain groups that sent a letter to the EU Commission and Member States spelling out their concern over the decree from the EU Court of Justice (ECJ) last July on new plant breeding techniques (NPBTs),...
