Impact sur l'environnement et les autres espèces? Le débat fait rage.
"The Food and Drug Administration has completed its highly-anticipated evaluation of the environmental impact of the world’s first genetically-engineered (GE) fish for human consumption, and written a document supportive of its commercialization on the U.S. market, according to a person close to the review process.
The evaluation is now under review at the White House’s Office of Management and Budget.
Meg Reilly, a communications liaison for the White House, confirmed the office now has the final documents under active review, but declined further comment.
The final release of the report is likely to spark off further controversy over the fish since many environmental groups, as well as several members of congress, oppose the farming and sale of such fish. They are worried about their impact on the environment, on other species, and on the existing fishing industry.
As many as 16 applications for transgenic fish may be under review throughout the world, mostly in Asia, although none are known to be yet approved, according to congressional testimony from the Veterinary Medicine Advisory Committee of the FDA.
Massachusetts-based AquaBounty Technologies, Inc. has engineered and bred more than ten generations of AquAdvantage, a super-fast growing GE salmon.
The photograph above shows an AquAdvantage salmon in the background contrasted against a regular Atlantic salmon sibling of the same age.
The FDA this spring completed a finalized version of an environmental assessment report on the fish, and the document made its rounds through inter-agency review, clearing the way for a final decision on its commercialization. The final environmental assessment has so far been undisclosed to the public.
The fish eggs would be produced on Prince Edward Island in Canada, licensed and purchased from grower clients, and raised as sterile fish in double-barricaded, land-based aquaculture systems designed to prevent their escape into the wild, and ensure their genetic isolation."
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