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https://www.reuters.com/science/china-approves-safety-first-gene-edited-crop-2023-05-04/>
'BEIJING, May 4 (Reuters) - China has approved the safety of a gene-edited
soybean, its first approval of the technology in a crop, as the country
increasingly looks to science to boost food production.
The soybean, developed by privately owned Shandong Shunfeng Biotechnology Co.,
Ltd, has two modified genes, significantly raising the level of healthy fat
oleic acid in the plant.
The safety certificate has been approved for five years from April 21,
according to a document published last week by the Ministry of Agriculture and
Rural Affairs.
Unlike genetic modification, which introduces foreign genes into a plant, gene
editing alters existing genes.
The technology is considered to be less risky than GMOs and is more lightly
regulated in some countries, including China, which published rules on
gene-editing last year.
"The approval of the safety certificate is a shot in the arm for the Shunfeng
team," said the firm in a statement to Reuters on Thursday.
Shunfeng claims to be the first company in China seeking to commercialise
gene-edited crops.'
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