The National Pork Producers Council, citing the Nobel Prize awarded to developers of gene editing technology, is renewing its call for regulatory oversight of gene edited livestock to be moved from the FDA to USDA.
Dr. Dan Kovich is NPPC’s director of science and technology.
“The fact that these two women got the Nobel Prize highlights that the whole scientific community, and the world, really sees the potential in this technology,” Kovich says, “and that’s why we really need to get some regulatory reform across the finish line, so the U.S.—and U.S.
