Aquabounty fined $9,500 in Panama due to lack of proper discharge permits
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [SCOM] Oct 28, 2014
In a case brought in 2012 by a local environmental organization in Panama, Centro de Incidencia Ambiental (CIAM), the Panamanian National Environmental Authority gave them a symbolic victory with an official ruling that Aquabounty would be subject to a $9500 fine for failure to have secured proper water discharge and water use permits prior to beginning its operations.
Aquabounty has a facility in Panama where it is raising and testing its genetically modified salmon, which if approved, would be the first commercial genetically modified food animal approved for sale.
The FDA has finished its review nearly two years ago, but since then the ultimate approval...
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