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2007-04-17 | permalink
Canadian authority wants to regulate low-phytat barley with x-ray mutation
Unfortunately, to date we have been unable to register and release HB379 low phytate barley under the normal variety registration procedures for a feed barley variety in Canada. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has, without any sound scientific rationale or consideration of relative risk, ruled that HB379 is a ”novel feed”. Despite more than eight months of repeated efforts on our part to provide the CFIA with sound scientific rationale as to the error of their decision to regulate HB379 in this way, we have been unsuccessful.
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2007-04-17 | permalink
Canadian authority wants to regulate low-phytat barley with x-ray mutation
Unfortunately, to date we have been unable to register and release HB379 low phytate barley under the normal variety registration procedures for a feed barley variety in Canada. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has, without any sound scientific rationale or consideration of relative risk, ruled that HB379 is a ”novel feed”. Despite more than eight months of repeated efforts on our part to provide the CFIA with sound scientific rationale as to the error of their decision to regulate HB379 in this way, we have been unsuccessful.
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