ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON RELEASES TO THE ENVIRONMENT Report 2: Why a modern understanding of genomes demonstrates the need for a new regulatory system for GMOs
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Classifying the regulatory status of organisms produced by new techniques is becoming increasingly difficult, because the definition of a GMO in the Directive was drafted at a time when many of these techniques had not been conceived. Technology in molecular genetics is developing rapidly, to the extent that plants and other organisms can be modified in ways whereby the use of recombinant technologies leaves no detectable footprint. In some cases, this is because the organisms have not themselves been engineered using recombinant technology.
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