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ACRE advice: application for a field trial of genetically modified wheat (24/R57/01)

ACRE's advice on an application for a field trial of genetically modified wheat.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Published: 3 February 2025

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ACRE advice: application for a field trial of genetically modified wheat (24/R57/01)

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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 University of Oxford to carry out a field trial of genetically modified wheat. 

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

Published 3 February 2025