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Daybreak Sept. 8: USDA OKs biotech tomato

09/08/22 10:00 AM By Philip Brasher and Bill Tomson
KEYWORDS Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue Claire Babineaux-Fontenot Food Research and Action Center gene-edited tomato House Education and Labor subcommittee Kristi Boswell Luis Guardia Obama administration Ron Wyden Senate Finance Committee
In a potential new milestone in agricultural biotechnology, a gene-edited tomato that’s high in antioxidants believed to fight cancer and heart disease, has cleared a key hurdle.
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