As we start winding down for a short Christmas break to refresh and recharge ahead of a busy 2023 – it is time to look back on the year just gone, and to celebrate our successes and impact.
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As England moves closer to new laws allowing the use of genome editing in farming systems, our new public dialogue has given fresh insight into people’s views on precision breeding.
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The Nuffield Council on Bioethics is working to ensure that the Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill includes provisions for securing a high standard of animal welfare, should genome editing be introduced into our food and farming system.
The Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill will amend regulatory requirements for the development and marketing of precision bred plants and animals in the UK.
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The Nuffield Council on Bioethics is calling on the Government to put animal welfare at the heart of plans to approve new breeding technologies in farming and food production, in a new report ‘Genome editing and farmed animal breeding: social and ethical issues’, published today.
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Following a consultation held by Defra earlier this year, the Government has announced plans to reform the regulation of genome-edited organisms, beginning with plants and then extending to animals and microbes at a later date.
The findings of a dialogue exploring people’s views about the adoption of genome editing technologies into animal farming have been published by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics.
GenomicsFood and agricultureResearch involving animals
In 2019, the World Health Organization convened an Expert Advisory Committee on Developing Global Standards for Governance and Oversight of Human Genome Editing. On Monday it published its findings in three reports: a position paper (summarising the findings), a set of recommendations and a framework for governance.