Extract from committee stage (Lords) of the Genetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill - Dec 14

Lord Cameron of Dillington (CB):...I believe it is the product that matters, not the technology used to produce it, provided that all the safeguards and breeding processes are strictly adhered to—and we are obviously going through these regulations very carefully, covering the breeding process for both crops and animals. They are already amazingly strict. As someone said in the Commons, do we label or license everything produced by 3d printing  just because someone could make an unlicensed gun with it? No—let us license the gun and not the 3d printing process...

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