Put USDA in charge of gene-edited livestock, says hog industry
The U.S. hog industry is going to the White House in its campaign for the USDA to supplant FDA as the federal regulator of gene-edited food animals, leaders said on Tuesday. The industry says American preeminence in science and agricultural exports will suffer if gene-edited advances such as disease-resistant pigs are hog-tied by a needlessly… » Read More
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