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ACRE advice: application for a trial of genetically modified potatoes (17/R29/01)

ACRE’s advice on an application from The Sainsbury Laboratory to carry out a trial using genetically modified potatoes.

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ACRE advice: application for a trial of genetically modified potatoes (17/R29/01)

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These documents are 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 trial of genetically modified potatoes. 

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

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Published 5 December 2024

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