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Regulatory regimes for transgenic crops

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In presenting their justifications for reducing the regulatory burden on transgenic food crops (Nat. Biotechnol. 23, 439–444, 2005), we feel that Strauss and colleagues significantly misrepresent the implications and rationale of our report Genome Scrambling-Myth or Reality? Transformation-Induced Mutations in Transgenic Crop Plants1. Unlike their characterization of our work, we did not specifically “argue for rejection if even a single base pair is changed.” In full, our relevant recommendations were that “transgenic lines containing genomic alterations at the site of transgene insertions be rejected” and that “the insertion of superfluous DNA be considered unacceptable.”

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