EU Eases GMO Rules To Speed Trials Of COVID-19 Vaccines

Move Should Take Effect ‘As A Matter Of Urgency’

The need to accelerate clinical trials of products for treating and preventing coronavirus has led the EU authorities to propose a more streamlined process for allowing the release of GMO-containing investigational medicinal products into the environment. 

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The European Parliament has adopted an EU regulation that would temporarily relax the rules on the release of genetically modified organisms in order to speed up the start of clinical trials with potential COVID-19 vaccines and make them available to patients more quickly.

To ensure that trials with GMO-containing coronavirus vaccines and treatments can start “without delay,” parliament says the regulation, which has...

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