THE method that US company Aqua Bounty plans to use to sterilise its genetically modified salmon has “important” weaknesses and might not prevent escaped salmon from sea cages affecting wild populations, says a report commissioned by the US Department of Agriculture. It suggests that the fast-growing GM fish should be raised only in inland farms.
And that’s not the only recommendation the biotech industry won’t like. The report also suggests that only non-food crops should be used to grow drugs or vaccines. Many companies are already working with food crops. In fact, the main conclusion of the report by the US National Research Council is that…
