Biotech industry fears Canada’s unreliable CRISPR crop rules will halter farming innovation

While offering guidance on how to control new crop varieties produced by gene-editing techniques such as CRISPR, Canada is falling behind other jurisdictions, says CropLife Canada.

Japan's consumer affairs agency recently decided that it would not require special labeling for products created by the new breeding technique because it does not require foreign DNA to be introduced.

Japan is joining a growing list of countr....