Secretary Perdue Issues USDA Statement on Plant Breeding Innovation

The following Press Release was published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service on March 28, 2018. It is reproduced in full below.

(Washington, D.C., March 28, 2018) - U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today issued a statement providing clarification on the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) oversight of plants produced through innovative new breeding techniques which include techniques called genome editing. Learn More

Details on USDA Plant Breeding Innovations Statement

Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service