{"id":121432,"date":"2022-05-18T18:38:19","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T18:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/2022\/05\/18\/florida-approves-release-of-billions-of-gmo-mosquitoes\/"},"modified":"2022-05-18T18:38:19","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T18:38:19","slug":"florida-approves-release-of-billions-of-gmo-mosquitoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/organicconsumers.org\/florida-approves-release-of-billions-of-gmo-mosquitoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Approves Release of Billions of GMO Mosquitoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Overlooking potential public health risks, lingering scientific questions, and deficient public data, the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS) approved the extension of Oxitec\u2019s two-year field trial on Wednesday, which includes releasing several billion more genetically engineered (GE) mosquitoes into the Florida Keys \u2014 one of Florida\u2019s most ecologically sensitive areas.<\/p>\n<p>FDACS\u2019 approval comes on the heels of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) granting the British biotechnology company Oxitec a two-year extension for its Experimental Use Permit for the release of a GE version of the species Aedes aegypti across Monroe County, Florida.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFDACS should have required Oxitec to cease claiming as \u2018confidential business information\u2019 their data on the human health and environmental effects of the release of the mosquitoes,\u201d said Jaydee Hanson, Policy Director at Center for Food Safety. \u201cIn Spain, when Oxitec withheld the data, the Spanish government told Oxitec to make public the health and environmental safety effects of their genetically engineered insect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overlooking potential public health risks, lingering scientific questions, and deficient public data, the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS) approved the extension of Oxitec\u2019s two-year field trial on Wednesday, which includes releasing several billion more genetically engineered (GE) mosquitoes into the Florida Keys \u2014 one of Florida\u2019s most ecologically sensitive areas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":121433,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1000,1031],"tags":[],"organicbytes":[],"countries":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.6 - 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