US approves GE salmon facility AquaBounty has been granted approval to raise its genetically engineered AquAdvantage strain of salmon at a facility in Indiana. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a supplemental New Animal Drug Application (NADA) submitted by AquaBounty Technologies to grow the fish at a land-based contained facility near Albany. The facility, which the Massachusetts-based bioengineering company bought in 2017, …

LAS VEGAS, Nevada, US — Controversial genetically engineered (GE) salmon pioneer AquaBounty Technologies could be cleared to begin US salmon sales if a continued prohibition against its imports isn’t inserted into the next federal budget, the company says. However, an Alaskan senator who was crucial in tweaking a 2016 budget bill that led to the import ban says that she …