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THE US FOOD and Drug Administration this week approved AquAdvantage Salmon as the first genetically modified food from animals.
The agency also issued guidance for manufacturers who choose to voluntarily label their products as containing ingredients from GMO sources.
The FDA regulates genetically-engineered animals under new provisions of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, because the modified DNA introduced into the animal qualifies it as a drug.
The AquAdvantage salmon made by AquaBounty Technologies, which some have dubbed a ‘Frankenfish’ contains a gene that allows it to grow faster than wild or conventional farm-raised Atlantic salmon.
Here’s what the new fish looks like:
The decision comes after almost two decades of efforts to win approval for the salmon.
“The FDA has thoroughly analysed and evaluated the data and information submitted by AquaBounty Technologies regarding AquAdvantage Salmon and determined that they have met the regulatory requirements for approval, including that food from the fish is safe to eat,” Bernadette Dunham, director of the FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medicine, said in a statement.
In order to be approved, the GM salmon had to meet several requirements:
The GM salmon cannot be raised in the US. It can only be raised in contained hatchery tanks on land in two facilities in Canada and Panama. The FDA completed an environmental assessment to show that the salmon would not significantly impact the “human environment” in the US.
Sterile
To ensure the fish don’t escape, they must be contained using multiple physical barriers, including plumbing that filters out eggs and fish. Even if the fish did escape, they are sterile, so they could not breed in the wild, according to the FDA.
Together with the Canadian and Panamanian governments, the FDA will oversee the facilities where the salmon are being raised and conduct regular inspections.
According to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, the FDA can only require foods to be labeled as GMO if there is a material difference between the GM product and its non-GM counterpart. The FDA found no such difference between the AquAdvantage salmon and unmodified salmon.
But given consumers’ interest in knowing what’s in their food, the FDA issued two sets of guidelines for manufacturers who wish to voluntarily label foods with genetically modified ingredients. These include a draft guide for labelling foods derived from Atlantic salmon, and a final guide on foods derived from GM plants.
Tanya Lewis for Business Insider
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No doubt a go fund me page will be set up to pay his debts.
A go fund me page unlike any other, the biggest go fund me page the world has ever known.
@ciaran o dowd: GetTrumpSneakers.com – this is the latest grift. $400 for a pair of golden high-tops that were probably made in China. LOL!
@Conrad Stapletwin: Chy-Na
@Conrad Stapletwin: buy Chinese sneakers to make America great again.
@ciaran o dowd: a really beautiful go fund me page, the biggest in history. Wouldn’t surprise me….
@ciaran o dowd: It’s been done….https://www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with-trump-raise-the-settlement
@Conrad Stapletwin: These might be the funniest scam items so far! But hey grifters gonna grift. Trump Monorail is surely only weeks away! Imagine being so stupid that you fund this guy and his crime organisation. Idiocracy we have arrived.
@ciaran o dowd: That’s already happened. It was setup by a well known Scientologist couple.
@ciaran o dowd: it already has been setup and it has not raised much.
@ciaran o dowd: Go fund me was setup yesterday, But will be shut down as not allowed one for settling court fines.
@Gregory C Donoghue: enjoy whatever you’re smoking there, you toolbox.
@K P: sure it’s NEVER trump’s fault, he’s the world’s biggest victim! *Punches girlfriend* “why did you make me do that, that was YOUR fault, not mine”
@Conrad Stapletwin: He was booed off the stage at that event too.
@Conrad Stapletwin: and look like they were made by Lidl and priced at €12.99. Hideous looking, so suits trump well.
@ciaran o dowd: You mean the “biggest”
Stick him behind bars where he aught to be!!
@Ollie Fitzpatrick: Michigan Arabs are critical of Bidens support for Israel? Do they think Donnie is goin to help the Palestinians?
@Gregory C Donoghue: Maybe nothing has been proven yet but being charged with 91 criminal offences is rather a serious indictment.
@SFmeansShyte4free: he won’t, they are all in Israel’s pocket. Too many Zionists running the show that no president is going to risk the wrath of them. Disgusting really that money comes before the lives of the innocent children being murdered in Palestine.
@Gregory C Donoghue: Actually he – Trump – has commuted (pardoned) many criminals, including Steve Bannon and Roger Stone.
Trump going to win bigly
Trump 2024
@Midnight Mechanic: fool
@Midnight Mechanic: #BidenWins2024 #StopCryingPatriots
@9QRixo8H: He probally won’t know his name by then
@9QRixo8H: how can you defend Biden – the person that gave the order to blow up Nordstream – thus inflating our energy costs and perpetuating the war in Ukraine.
Are people in the USA really that gullible? They probably handed over cash just to see him, I think the man is not very honest. Why do people vote for him I don’t understand.
@Philip Slevin: it all depends what TV channels they watch, how dum that are, how old they are and what colour they are
@Philip Slevin: yes they are.
@Philip Slevin: I don’t know if it’s associated to their eduction system or if it is more of a social issue but US citizens are without doubt the thickest bunch of people in the world.
@Philip Slevin: uneducated hillbillies who don’t know anything better and he has given a voice to all their disgusting ra c ist and hom o ph obic, miso-gynistic thoughts. Telling them all they are superior to other people. This is how all dictators got in to power. And make no mistake, Trump is a wannabe dictator just hasn’t gotten there yet but voted back in, god knows what he could do, none of it good.
@Philip Slevin: As someone once noted:
“No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.”
US politics is gone to the dogs, absolute nutters on both sides. The weaponised agencies and judiciary being used to hammer individuals is crazy, all the while US society turns on itself. China, Iran and Russia are laughing their backsides off at how things have regressed in the US.
@Pelagius Asturias: absurd, you’re talking a few people being indicted for obvious crimes out of a 330m population. In America, exaggeration knows no bounds!
@Pelagius Asturias: nutters mostly on one side dude.
@Temp Stuff: Any update on the CIA Obama files dump? They are all as bad as each other
@donal O’brien: The Democrats are the only side that had Clan members in congress, if you can’t see that both sides are corrupt, (bar a few individuals) then that’s on you.
@Pelagius Asturias: I am certainly no fan of Trump but he was completely above the law as a President which isn’t right because there are supposed to be all these checks and balances and then once out of power faces all these charges some of which raise eyebrows by their nature and timing. He was ordered to pay $5m for defaming advice columnist E. Jean Carroll, a very unusual case that largely rested on hearsay.
@Temp Stuff: Do a little research on the current Illinois Mayor, Tiffany Henyard.
@Harry Whelks: You left out the part about how he sexually assaulted her and was found guilty ,not once but twice, by a jury of his peers.. how exactly do you find that unusual.. and it wasn’t heresay.. it was her testimony.. there’s a world of difference ffs ..
@Pelagius Asturias: Manly due to trump and the GOP! Watching the President of the United States act like the Russian Presidents pet poodle was embarrassing.
@Pelagius Asturias: Not that old slur again. What next? Republicans freed the slaves? By the way I doubt very much that Russians and Chinese people are laughing given the regimes they endure.
Well Putin maybe, he funded most of this division in the US.
@Pelagius Asturias: No they are not.
When the US Democratic Party began to implement its policies on civil rights, those racists that had previously run as Democrats left the party.
And were welcomed into the US Republican Party.
Which has been a bastion of racism and white supremacy ever since.
Look up ‘The Southern Strategy’.
@ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere: Looks like slavery is back on the cards for the Democrats with the new Housing for Labour bill that Biden just signed. Lol. Basket case politics from both sides.
@Pelagius Asturias: Appalling politics from the US Republican Party.
Not so from the other side, apart from its support for Israel.
Lock him up, lock him up. If you look up the word Narcissist in the dictionary, Donald J Trump is the answer.
Half a million should be nothing to the best business man in the world……. Lol
@Rees: Half a billion mini me.
@Pat Barry: Dr. Evil.
@Gregory C Donoghue: On what grounds would the judgement be overturned?
Trump engaged in fraud at two levels – one on on lending institutions, and the second on the IRS.
That has been proven.
He might – just might – be able to get the fines reduced. That happens quite often in the US judicial system.
But what grounds would he have to overturn the judgement of fraud?
@Gregory C Donoghue: Yes he has and more to follow!
Yawn……
America is a third world country now.
We know for years he’s always overblown his assets and worth, he’s a huckster, no more so than the Biden/Clinton Crime family. Good luck America in voting come November.
@Marcus Maher – Triskellion Films: it’s pathetic that you think Biden is anything like Trump in terms of corruption. The Russian propaganda has done its job; you are compromised
@Gregory C Donoghue: Give one example of Biden criminality or corruption please.
@ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere: how can you defend Biden – the person that gave the order to blow up Nordstream – thus inflating our energy costs and perpetuating the war in Ukraine.
Judge Engoron; what a guy, openly anti-Trump and clearly we see this with this bizarre levek of damages. The bigger picture is how the anti-business Democrats are trying to scare off big businesses from NYC. For this case, I’m sure there are other wealthy businessmen seeing this damages award and thinking how utterly absurd it is, contemplating themselves to move states. AOC, a prominent NYCDemocrat actively goes out to attack big companies in NYC (eg Amazon) that, like it or not, are crucial to the US economy prospering. Ultimately this level of damages against Trump will probably be significantly reduced in the Supreme Court but it is another example of the crazy weaponising by Democrats and Republicans (who also do this) of the judiciary and other State agents.
@Lewis Armstrong: Trump has been a hated criminal in New York State for decades. New York does not need grifters like Trump pretending to do “business”, in fact, nobody does.
@Lewis Armstrong: A lot of big business and personnel are taking their businesses to states like Texas and Florida. Chain Stores and small businesses in Democrat run cities like SF and NY are shutting their doors because of the ridiculous laws around theft, you can basically walk into a store and steal up to hundreds of dollars worth of stock and nothing can be done about it. In NY you can attack the Police and be released the very next day if caught.
@Pelagius Asturias: do you have any education, or do you just live in your head
@Gregory C Donoghue: How many legal judgements have there been against Trump?
So far.
@Pelagius Asturias: Which part of the GOP handbook is this from?
@ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere: I tried to check but it is impossible as there are so many of them, civil and criminal charges. Others which were pleaded down as well.
@Lewis Armstrong: Funny but big business loves NYC as it has great laws in relation to how they are run.The only businesses that dont like it are the ones run by grafters and Carpetbaggers like trump!
@Gary Kearney: And – if I remember correctly – 91 criminal indictments doing down the track.
His time limit appeal for immunity on for civil actions against him related to his attempted coup on January 6th has expired*, and so those other civil actions against him can now proceed.
If E. Jean Carroll got $5 million, and subsequently $83 (?) million for his wrongdoing to one person, how much could the multitude of DC cops, Congressional staffers and others get?
(*He still has an option to appeal for immunity later.)
@Gary Kearney: Correct!
These laws are to protect businesses from fraud.
Fraud which the courts have found Trump engaged in.
And part of the judgement was a prohibition of Trump from obtaining any further loans from New York lending institutions.
@Gregory C Donoghue: he has a criminal history….nobody wants to do business with him….even his attorneys in this case insisted on being paid upfront
Who hires someone that’s had everything afforded to them and STILL goes bankrupt 6 times!?… I mean best of luck, for most it’s just entertainment, seems silly tho
What criminals the world over ever do anything but present themselves as innocent victims
The lying treacherous sex offender orange thing is guilty of fraud, ha ha ha
There is a very weighty several volume political history of L.B.J., a man who was considered the most experienced and consummate US politician and deal maker of the 20th Century. It’s going to take the same number of pages just to chronicle his polar opposite covering only 9 years. That’s going to be quite some read. All the hair-brained, 8 year old tantrums and posturing, all the repugnant failures of basic responsibility and conduct, all the gross violations of his oath of office, all the mind rotting toxicity of his SM speechifying, all the condemnation by his associates and administration officials…….
He railed against the Judge that found him guilty in civil and criminal cases for years.
It is not the Democrats, he was found guilty by good old Republicans as well. He has a history of racism too.
Trump Vodka, Trump College, Trump Airline, Trump Steaks, Trump Atlantic City, Trump City! This is just some of the failures. That and never paying contractor on his builds, the list of companies who sued him and or been put out of business by him is shocking!
Daddy bailed him out repeatedly! Over 400 millions worth of bailing. Just do the research it is not hard. This site refuses outside links!
Yet people say it is fake news, it is not and especially as a lot of it is in court records!
When President Trump is reelected, we’ll see a truly weaponised DOJ turned against the crooked Biden dynasty.
There’ll be no stopping him from draining the swamp this time.
@Paul: He and those like him are the swamp, you can se that clearly by all his tax breaks for the rich and the super rich. All his attacks on supports for the old and disabled communities and his att\cks on people of other countries or cultures.
He has been found guilty of numerous things and yet you think he will do anything other than line his own pockets and that of his friends.
You really need to double check the facts. Like how his hotels all made hundreds of millions out of his presidency for example.
Simple to chant slogans try doing some research first.
@Gary Kearney: Somebody has to spread russian propaganda.
There are a few such accounts here.
@Paul: Stop crying Patriot
@Gary Kearney: punctuation goes a long way….just sayin
@Paul: wouldn’t that completely void any criticisms he or the likes of yourself have of biden ‘weaponising’ the DOJ, or is it only a bad thing when the fella you don’t like does it?
If either of these two really is the best they can come up with to become the next POTUS then the country must be in a pretty shambolic state. Surely to God there’s some younger person who’s completely compis mentas and has the stamina to become a more competent leader the leader of the free world?
@Dorothy Giselsson: Except that – surprising as it is to me – Biden’s presidency has been one of the most successful in US history.
Although the US media is doing everything it can to normalise Trump – his appalling record, policies and character – and to demonise Biden.
The real Trump is locked away in Siberia
@Jerryanne: With the real Putin?
“These repulsive abuses of power are not just an attack on me, they’re really an attack on you and all Americans,” Trump said on Saturday. “We’re all in this mess together.”.. (we’re all in this together!).. reminds me of an advert I once saw in the personal section of a magazine..” socialist with knife and fork wishes to meet communist with steak and kidney pie!”..
If you don’t pay at least a 100€/month to your master who is in a difficult situation, then you are not a true Trump supporter. Please pay regularly so he can continue to be your master.
The journal loves writing about this man
It’s crazy that Trump and Biden are america’s finest. The giant douche and the turd sandwich. I hope America can one day recover.
He’ll just go bankrupt again then threaten NATO members with Russian invasion for not paying their debts. What are people thinking voting for this goon?
Trump has just been listed as the worse president in US history.
Historians evaluate the performance and consequences of presidents and produce such ratings. Trump is now officially the worse of all time.
He is going to win. Mark my words.
Donald Dump
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