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Message: <blockquote data-quote="etudiant" data-source="post: 3319286" data-attributes="member: 48052">The decision that GMO products do not need to be labeled as such is the central issue here.The regulators in the US have stated that the GMO salmon product is functionally equivalent to the conventional salmons, so that labeling is not required.Imho, this decision opens the floodgates, which is why I'm opposed to it. There is much more change in the pipeline and it desperately needs careful scrutiny.GMO applications are skyrocketing, as the process becomes better understood and as the tools for manipulation are improving rapidly.Yet the regulators are basically throwing up their hands with this decision and leaving the polity to deal with the consequences, even though those are not yet understood.We have a pretty clean environment genetically as yet. This decision puts that at risk. It needs to get reversed.</blockquote>