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Negotiations on NGT plant regulations: Warning against misleading the public
Is the EU moving towards technological libertarianism?
During the ‘trilogue’ negotiations, i.e. negotiations between the EU Parliament, the Council of Ministers and the Commission, EU representatives agreed to exempt almost all plants obtained from new genetic…
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First systematic study on differences between conventional breeding and new genetic engineering: final version published
The EU is in danger of abandoning fundamental scientific standards
The first systematic study on the differences between conventional plant breeding and new genetic engineering (NGT) has now been published in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences after an…
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New study confirms fundamental differences between new genetic engineering and conventional breeding
Decisive evidence for the future regulation of NGT plants
A new study published as preprint examines the differences between conventional plant breeding and new genetic engineering (also called new genomic techniques, NGTs). It shows that ‘recombinant enzymatic mutagens’,…