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Download PDF Two consultations were launched in the New Year on issues that have a significant impact on crop production. CPM brings together views on gene-editing and farm assurance. Now that we have left the EU, we are free to make coherent policy decisions based on science and evidence. By Tom Allen-Stevens The government has launched its long-awaited consultation on the regulation of genetic technologies. But the issue may have divided the nation and has raised questions over trade with the EU and co-existence. “Techniques such as gene-editing (GE) are really a natural evolution of conventional approaches to plant breeding,” stated Defra Secretary of State George Eustice in his address at the Oxford Farming Conference last month. “What we are now able to do through these techniques is to more accurately move traits within the same species in a way that could happen naturally and which therefore respects the rules of nature. It gives us the power to evolve plant varieties with particular traits far faster than was ever possible with conventional breeding and this opens up huge opportunities to change our approach and embrace sustainable farming.” A ruling by the Court of Justice for the EU (CJEU) two years…
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