Unlabeled Gene-Edited Food to Be Sold in UK

Unlabeled Gene-Edited Food to Be Sold in UK
This week, the UK government introduced a Genetic Technology Bill to Parliament proposing the relaxation of regulations on genetically-edited products, like tomatoes enriched with vitamin D and wheat with reduced levels of the amino acid asparagine, which turns into carcinogenic acrylamide during the process of baking or toasting bread, according to The Guardian and UK Research and Innovation. The new legislation would at first apply only to plants, BBC News reported.… Read the rest