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The USDA won’t regulate genetically edited plants

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The US Department of Agriculture has zero plans to regulate plants altered with gene-editing technologies, according to the agencys Secretary Sonny Perdue. It wont prevent the release of crops created using CRISPR, for instance, so long as the final product is something that couldve been developed through traditional breeding techniques and its not a plant pest or achieved with the help of plant pests. That means giving plants traits like resistance to disease, chemicals or floodi…<...
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