7 Things You Need to Know About the FDA’s Approval of GMO Salmon

Posted By gmocontroversy on Nov 20, 2015 in All, Environment, Health and Safety, Regulation, Science | 2 comments

GMO Salmon Is Officially on Its Way The FDA just approved genetically engineered AquAdvantage salmon, produced by the company AquaBounty.  They engineered the salmon by adding a growth hormone from a Chinook salmon and a promoter gene from an ocean pout.  Ocean pout is an eel-like fish that can grow year-round in freezing waters, and as an article by Tim Schwab from Food & Water Watch put it, “is only as closely related to...