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US approves bigger, faster growing GM salmon

The GM salmon uses the genes of the large Chinook to improve the Atlantic variety.

Nevil Gibson
Fri, 20 Nov 2015

US authorities have for the first time approved a genetically modified fish or animal and it could pose future competition for New Zealand farmed salmon exports.

The Food and Drug Administration has approved the production and commercial sale of of AquAdvantage salmon, whose DNA has been changed

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Nevil Gibson
Fri, 20 Nov 2015
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