EU ethics group advocates “proportionate” regulation of gene-edited crops

摘要

Genome editing technologies in plants could, “with appropriate and proportionate control”, help ensure food security and protect the environment, but “they could result in the opposite without it”, says the European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies (EGE). The EU should evaluate the costs and benefits of genome-edited crop lines and regulate according to risk, with a “light touch” for certain techniques, the group says in its new opinion on the ethics of genome editing. This view is welcomed by European seed association Euroseeds.