New Guidance for Genetically Engineered Organisms: What Does it Mean?
By Brianna J. Schroeder, Janzen Agricultural Law, LLC
Recently, the USDA Animal Plant and Health Inspection Services announced new guidance for extension requests for genetically engineered organisms (often referred to as “GE organisms”). What does this mean for the public? Hopefully, it will lead to shorter review times, flexibility in extension requests, and more predictability from the government review processes. This should mean more innovation and less red tape, at least for extensions.
As I’ve explained in past posts, APHIS regulates the introduction of GE organisms. For now, APHIS treats genetically modified organisms and genetically edited materials the same. I think there needs to be a distinction between those groups because gene editing often does not introduce any foreign genetic material into the plant or animal being engineered, but that is a story for another day. In this post, I will use “GE” to mean “genetically engineered”— that is, both GMOs and genetically edited organisms.
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