FDA proposes approval process for genetically engineered animals
Thursday, September 18, 2008 - 12:49
in Biology & Nature
The regulations would treat the creatures like drugs. Critics fear that environmental concerns aren't being given proper weight. The Food and Drug Administration today opened the way for a bevy of genetically engineered salmon, cows and other animals to leap from the laboratory to the marketplace, unveiling an approval process that would treat the modified creatures like drugs.