Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 9 March 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

CRISPR-Cas9 Gene Editing: Discussion

Dr. Barbara Doyle Prestwich:

Yes, and the thing about the CRISPR we are talking about is that while additional sequences can be introduced, there is also CRISPR whereby a change is made and the change is not any different from one that might occur in nature or one that could be included through X-ray mutagenesis, which are not labelled under the directive as GMO techniques.