May 3, 2023 -Today, the Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food has approved changes to Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) regulatory guidance that, along with similar changes permitted by the Minister of Health in May of 2022, allow product developers to assess the...
4 APRIL, 2023 – The Board of the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), the world’s leading forest product certifier, decided [1] at their March meeting to back away from a process that critics charge would have put forests at risk and would have opened the door to...
AquaBounty stops producing GM salmon in Canada February 7, 2023. Press Release: AquaBounty to stop producing GM salmon in Canada, as world’s first GM food animal struggles to find a market After raising only two “cohorts” of GM salmon at the world’s first...
February 7, 2023, Charlottetown. In a major turn-around, the US company AquaBounty says it will stop producing its controversial genetically modified (GM or genetically engineered) Atlantic salmon in Prince Edward Island (PEI), Canada. “This is a huge victory for...
