"In July 2018, the European Union’s top court ruled that new GM techniques such as CRISPR pose similar risks to older GM techniques and need to be assessed for safety in the same way.5 Our key agricultural competitor New Zealand will also be regulating these techniques as GM. Even the US Food and Drug Administration, which is not known for its precautionary approach to gene technology, has proposed that gene edited animals be assessed for food safety.6In stark contrast to overseas regulators, the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator (OGTR) and Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) have both recommended that a number of these new GM techniques be deregulated. Furthermore, they have relied on advice from biotechnology scientists with clear commercial conflicts of interest in making their recommendations.
Research shows that the majority of Australians are not comfortable with the idea of eating GM animals.7Yet if these techniques are deregulated anyone would be free to use them in animals and the resulting animal products would enter our food chain with no labelling and no safety testing.There is zero tolerance for unapproved GM content in many of Australia’s major export markets. That makes it essential to have prior assessment of not just the environmental and human health impacts, but also the economic impacts of any use of GMOs. As a major agricultural exporter, if Australia were to exempt any of these techniques from regulation it could result in serious trade implications."
This is the first in the list provided by google, I'm not sure where Jack, but I read several months ago that the UK trade deal would allow up to 50% to be "modified",and given the above ref to Aussie exports its make sense for the Aussies to get a "new deal" lined up with a UK govt. that is DESPERATE for ANY sort of deal it can sell to it's gullable public
http://emergingtech.foe.org.au/wp-conte ... a-2018.pdf