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Strategies to enable the adoption of animal biotechnology to sustainably improve global food safety and security

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The ability to generate transgenic animals has existed for over 30 years, and from those early days many predicted that the technology would have beneficial applications in agriculture. Numerous transgenic agricultural animals now exist, however to date only one product from a transgenic animal has been approved for the food chain, due in part to cumbersome regulations. Recently, new techniques such as precision breeding have emerged, which enables the introduction of desired traits without the use of transgenes. The rapidly growing human population, environmental degradation, and concerns related to zoonotic and pandemic diseases have increased pressure on the animal agriculture sector to provide a safe, secure and sustainable food supply. There is a clear need to adopt transgenic technologies as well as new methods such as gene editing and precision breeding to meet these challenges and the rising demand for animal products. To achieve this goal, cooperation, education, and communication between multiple stakeholders—including scientists, industry, farmers, governments, trade organizations, NGOs and the public—is necessary. This report is the culmination of concepts first discussed at an OECD sponsored conference and aims to identify the main barriers to the adoption of animal biotechnology, tactics for navigating those barriers, strategies to improve public perception and trust, as well as industry engagement, and actions for governments and trade organizations including the OECD to harmonize regulations and trade agreements. Specifically, the report focuses on animal biotechnologies that are intended to improve breeding and genetics and currently are not routinely used in commercial animal agriculture. We put forward recommendations on how scientists, regulators, and trade organizations can work together to ensure that the potential benefits of animal biotechnology can be realized to meet the future needs of agriculture to feed the world.

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  1. CSIRO Health and Biosecurity, Geelong, Australia

    Mark Tizard, John Lowenthal, Caitlin Cooper & Tim Doran

  2. Virginia Polytechic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA, USA

    Eric Hallerman

  3. University of Minnesota, Recombinetics, Minneapolis, MN, USA

    Scott Fahrenkrug

  4. University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA

    Martina Newell-McGloughlin

  5. University of New England, Armidale, Australia

    John Gibson

  6. Flow Biotech, Soest, The Netherlands

    Frans de Loos

  7. AgResearch, Hamilton, New Zealand

    Stefan Wagner & Götz Laible

  8. Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea

    Jae Yong Han

  9. University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

    Michael D’Occhio

  10. Food Standards Australia New Zealand, Canberra, Australia

    Lisa Kelly

  11. CSIRO Food and Nutrition, Werribee, Australia

    Kari Gobius

  12. Foreign Animal Inspection Agency, Winnipeg, Canada

    Primal Silva

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Tizard, M., Hallerman, E., Fahrenkrug, S. et al. Strategies to enable the adoption of animal biotechnology to sustainably improve global food safety and security. Transgenic Res 25, 575–595 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11248-016-9965-1

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