Heritable Genetic Modification in Food Animals, a new congressionally mandated report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, offers recommendations for identifying the ...

Food-animal breeders are beginning to leverage advances in the fields of genomics and biotechnology to make targeted changes in DNA, called heritable genetic modifications (HGMs), that can be passed ...

The Food and Drug Administration, meanwhile, does monitor the food safety and nutrition of gene-edited foods — but only if the food-maker requests a consultation. Calyxt has made no such request ...

Breton, North America's leading producer of organic pork, is calling for full transparency in response to the recent approval ...

Our peer-reviewed reports present the evidence-based consensus of committees of experts. Published proceedings record the presentations and discussions that take place at hundreds of conferences, ...

Crops directly feed us or animals we keep for food. They are commonly cereals, fruit and vegetables. We can change (or modify) crops in two key ways - selective breeding and genetic modification ...

These 8 GMOs tell a brief history of genetic modification. ... Food safety regulators have approved it in the United States, Australia, Canada and New Zealand, ...

Researchers at DTU Biosustain (The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability at DTU) have developed a new tool ...

Please join the Committee on Heritable Genetic Modification in Food Animals for their workshop Oversight and Food Safety Concerns Posed by Heritable Genetic Modification in Food Animals. This workshop ...