U.S. Seeks To Speed Up EU Approval Of GMOs, Novel Agriculture Products

A U.S. proposal for speeding up the European Union approval process for biotechnology products is worded so broadly that it would likely commit the EU to faster approvals of future products made with new agricultural technologies, according to sources who analyzed a leaked text on sanitary and phytosanitary measures in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. That could cover products derived from cloning or a new gene editing technology called CRISPR -- a more specific way of achieving variations in...