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GM salmon may be on US menus in 18 months
It’s big, it’s sterile, and it’s been dubbed ‘frankenfish’ by some. But as Chris McGreal in yesterday’s online Guardian, genetically modified salmon is about to start a process of approval by the US Food and Drug Administration that could make it the first engineered animal destined for consumption by humans anywhere.
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