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ACRE advice: application for a field trial of genetically modified potato (22/R29/01)

Advice from the Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment (ACRE) on an application to carry out a field trial of genetically modified potato.

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ACRE advice: application for a field trial of GM potato (22/R29/01)

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This document is the advice of the Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment (ACRE) to government on an application from The Sainsbury Laboratory to carry out a field trial of genetically modified potato.

The committee advised that the risks to human health and the environment from this trial are extremely low.

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Published 7 July 2022

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