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The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is in favour of allowing a fish produced by scientists at AquaBounty to reach the dinner table.
[But] almost one million people have signed an online petition to stop the US approving a scheme that would allow genetically modified salmon to enter the food chain.View the original article here: Anti GM-Salmon Petition Nears One Million
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