Ecuador: Agricultural Biotechnology Annual

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On May 21, 2019, Ecuador’s Office of the President issued the implementing regulation for the Omnibus Bill on the Environment. Article 16 mandates the formation of a National Biosafety Committee. Article 30 provides exceptions to the use of biosafety protocols. Among the exceptions are those organisms resulting from the genetic improvement of species that do not have recombinant or foreign DNA in the genome.

Ecuador: Agricultural Biotechnology Annual

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