FDA Lifts Import Ban on Genetically Engineered Salmon
The Food and Drug Administration on March 8 ended a ban on imports of genetically engineered salmon, deactivating Import Alert 99-40 to allow the sale and importation of AquaBounty Technologies’ AquAdvantage Salmon, the only currently approved GE salmon for food…
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use, it said in a “questions and answers” page recently added to the FDA website. The move follows regulations recently issued by the Agricultural Marketing Service setting disclosure requirements for GE foods and set to take effect in 2022 (see 1812260052). Congress had in 2016 directed FDA to ban imports of GE salmon until a labeling standard was developed, a requirement FDA deemed satisfied with the issuance of USDA’s final rule. “FDA intends to revise” agency guidance for “food manufacturers who wish to voluntarily label their food products or ingredients (for humans or animals) derived from Atlantic salmon as not containing GE Atlantic salmon,” it said.