For the first time, the USDA said it won't subject a crop edited with controversial gene-editing tool CRISPR to the same rules as GMOs - Business Insider

For the first time, the USDA said it won't subject a crop edited with controversial gene-editing tool CRISPR to the same rules as GMOs - Business Insider: "The mushroom, developed by Yinong Yang at Penn State, is not the first crop to be modified using the controversial gene-editing technique CRISPR-Cas9, but it is the first one that the USDA has said isn’t subject to regulation.

At the center of the agency’s decision not to subject the new crop to its rules is the fact that the CRISPR-edited mushroom doesn’t contain any “introduced genetic material” or foreign DNA and thus would not be a threat to other plants."



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