Recently, an Advisory Committee of the US Food and Drug Administration convened to discuss the authorization of genetically engineered salmon. If passed, this will mark a milestone as the first genetically engineered animal approved for human consumption.
The new salmon, named AquaAdvantage and produced by Massachusetts firm AquaBountiful, will be a hybrid of Atlantic salmon, Chinook Pacific salmon and Ocean Pout, an eel like fish with the ability to live in cold waters.
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