Panama Regulators Could Slow U.S. Approval of GM Salmon

[Judi Lynn]

Panama Regulators Could Slow U.S. Approval of GM Salmon
By Carey L. Biron

WASHINGTON, Oct 29 2014 (IPS) - Officials in Panama have fined the local facility of a U.S. biotechnology company for a series of permitting and regulatory failures around a pioneering attempt to create genetically modified salmon.

The experiments are being carried out by researchers for AquaBounty Technologies, which currently has an application with the U.S. government to sell genetically modified (GM) salmon filets in this country. If regulators approve that application, AquaBounty’s salmon would be the first genetically modified meat sold for human consumption anywhere in the world.

Further, companies in the United States and around the globe are said to be actively watching U.S. regulators’ response to AquaBounty’s application as a critical indication of whether to proceed with other GM meat projects.

“AquaBounty is really out front on this – the current case will set an important precedent,” Dana Perls, a food and technology campaigner at Friends of the Earth, a watchdog group, told IPS.

More:
http://www.ipsnews.net/2014/10/panama-regulators-could-slow-u-s-approval-of-gm-salmon/

[RiverLover]

1. "proceed with other GMO meat"?

You'd think one genetically modified animal would be enough. What's next after that?

It really is a shame Catholics killed Paganism back in the day...we should be honoring nature again. Not denaturing it.