FDA stops imports of genetically engineered salmon

The Food and Drug Administration issued an alert this Friday stop imports of genetically engineered salmon.

The agency is following a mandate Sen. Lisa Murkowski pushed through Congress in a spending bill at the end of last year. But the import limitation is likely to be just temporary.

The agency, citing bill language, says it can’t allow the fish to be sold as food until it writes consumer labeling guidelines.

There’s no word yet on when the FDA expects to have those guidelines completed.

Meanwhile, the only company approved to produce genetically altered salmon hasn’t yet begun exporting them from its plant in Panama.

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