Extensive safety trials for GM stifle innovation, according to the Royal Society
The regulatory burden on the genetic modification of crops is holding back innovation and should be reformed, a Royal Society policy paper has urged.
The requirement for extensive science and safety trials on GM crops, inherited from the EU in rules that remain applicable in UK law, are “no longer justified”, states the briefing, led by Jonathan Jones, group leader at biological research and technology centre the Sainsbury Laboratory in Norwich.
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