24.03.24
This is a milestone for the UK science and innovation sector and has the potential to provide a regulatory framework that enables the full potential of precision breeding in agriculture.
Precision breeding is an innovative and cutting-edge set of tools that British agriculture needs to continue becoming safer, more efficient, and more sustainable.
ABC is committed to working closely with the Government, industry, and other stakeholders to ensure that UK agriculture can benefit from the full potential of precision breeding and other biotechnologies in the future. The Government must now prioritise setting out the path toward the practical use of these techniques; otherwise, the full benefits will not be realised. Meanwhile, it must ensure regulation is clear, concise, harmonised with other global science-based frameworks, and, most importantly, proportionate to the safety of precision-bred products. Doing so will help unlock the UK’s potential to be at the forefront of scientific advances in agriculture, while attracting the investment that can help achieve this.
