GENET-news articles on "GE salmons"

2012-04-24 | permalink

GM lamb with healthy fish fat on Chinese menu

Genetically-modified lamb with a ‘healthy’ type of fat naturally found in fish and nuts have been cloned for the first time, by Chinese scientists. ‘Peng Peng’ was born a month ago at a laboratory in Xinjiang, western China. He has a gene from a roundworm which makes him produce fat containing high levels of omega-3 fatty acids, as is found in oily fish like salmon. [...] Dr Yutao Du, of the Beijing Genomics Institute in Shenzhen, southern China, said [...] that BGI was now “ready for the industrial-scale development” of GM sheep. Du emphasised that the altered lamb would not be making its way on to restaurant plates anytime soon.

2012-02-09 | permalink

U.S. consumer groups demand GE salmon risk assessment according to food law

Three U.S. consumer groups petitioned the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday to subject a new genetically engineered salmon to a more rigorous review process than is now in place before the fish can be approved as safe to eat. The fish at issue, AquaBounty Technologies’ AquAdvantage salmon, is currently classified as a new animal drug for the purposes of FDA review. [...] The petition calls for the salmon to be classified as a food additive instead, which would require a more rigorous FDA review.

2012-01-05 | permalink

U.S. OK could see GE fish enter Canadian food supply chain

Canada could have trouble keeping genetically engineered salmon out of the food supply if the U.S. government approves the first genetically engineered animal that people can eat. And according to an internal analysis obtained by Postmedia News, one potential solution is to simply follow the U.S. lead, in order to avoid trade complications. That would mean allowing the GE fish in the Canadian market.

2011-12-21 | permalink

U.S. coalition calls for FDA to halt approval of genetically engineered salmon

Discovery of undisclosed infection of salmon eggs calls into question company claims that GE salmon are safe for the environment
Yesterday afternoon a coalition of 11 food safety, environmental, consumer and fisheries organizations sent a letter to the U.S. Food & Drug Administration calling for a halt to its approval of a genetically engineered salmon after learning that the company’s – AquaBounty Technologies, Inc. – research site was contaminated with a new strain of Infectious Salmon Anaemia, the deadly fish flu that is devastating fish stocks around the world.

2011-12-20 | permalink

Responsible approach to GM fish is to assume escape says U.S. Senator Begich

“The prudent and responsible approach here is to assume the fish will escape,” said Senator Begich at a hearing of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee. Begich called the hearing to discuss the potential environmental impacts of genetically engineered salmon, but said the food safety aspects would be left to the Food and Drug Administration. “If these fish were to get out into the wild they could wreak havoc on marine and freshwater ecosystems,” Begich said. “...I’m not convinced that this agency has the scientific expertise to assess the environmental impacts.”

2011-12-14 | permalink

The battle over GE salmon approval heads to U.S. Congress

GMO salmon’s potential impact will be debated in front of a Senate subcommittee this week. The continuing tussle over the future of AquaBounty Technology’s genetically modified salmon is heating up again this week, as a U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard prepares to hear testimony on Thursday addressing the potential environmental impacts and safety issues surrounding the salmon—including risks to wild fish stocks.

2011-12-13 | permalink

Safety concerns linger around genetically modified salmon

After 15 years of deliberation, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has yet to decide whether it will approve a genetically modified salmon for human consumption. Now there’s a catchy lead. But the truth is, the long-running regulatory saga of AquaBounty’s application to sell salmon with a growth hormone gene from one fish plus a promoter of an antifreeze gene from another — which help it grow twice as fast as typical farmed salmon — does not seem headed toward a conclusion.

2011-12-06 | permalink

U.S. GE salmon approval creates growing list of ‘what if’ scenarios

News that the U.S. government is close to approving the first genetically engineered animal – AquaBounty’s Atlantic salmon – for production and consumption has upset biotech naysayers and kicked off a lengthening list of “what if” scenarios. [...] “It’s very straight-forward. These fish are basically genetically identical to all other Atlantic salmon with one exception: we’ve added a single gene for the growth hormone from a Chinook salmon,” Ron Stotish, AquaBounty president and CEO, told Farm Press in a recent interview. “A single copy of that gene has been placed in the Atlantic salmon background so that fish grows faster than the unmodified Atlantic salmon.”

2011-10-26 | permalink

GE salmon controvery in Canada

Allowing an American company to produce the eggs of genetically-modifed salmon on P.E.I. would hurt the Island’s reputation as a green province, environmentalists warn. The AquaBounty Technologies experimental fish plant in Bay Fortune produces the Atlantic genetically-modified salmon eggs. Implanted genes make the fish grow at twice the natural rate. Aquabounty has asked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to approve the fish for commercial sale.

2011-10-19 | permalink

Obama administration ’bailed out’ GM salmon firm AquaBounty with research grant

The Obama administration awarded a coveted research grant to a financially strapped company working to put genetically modified salmon on American dinner tables, overlooking disclosures that the firm could run out of cash in early 2012, it has emerged. Campaigners say the $500,000 grant to AquaBounty amounts to a bail-out for the firm’s main investor, the business tycoon and former economics minister of Georgia, Kakha Bendukidze. They are also comparing it to the Solyndra controversy, which saw a solar company go bankrupt after receiving government loan guarantees. ”[...] We have seen this company’s stock plummeting for months and months – years actually – and what does the US Department of Agriculture do but give this company money?”, said Colin O’Neil, a policy analyst at the Centre for Food Safety

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