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Agriculture R&D Implications of the CJEU's Gene-Specific Mutagenesis Ruling
Stuart J Smyth1, Rim Lassoued1
1Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada.
Trends in Biotechnology
|October 9, 2018
Abstract:
On 25 July 2018, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled that gene-specific mutagenesis must be regulated as genetically modified organism (GMO) technologies. However, the costs to agricultural research and development (R&D) innovation will be staggering, not to mention the brain drain to other countries. As a result, Europe can now be known as the deathplace of agricultural breeding innovations.