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Happy Green Guacamole - The Non-Browning Avocado. Dr. Jeff Touchman

Talking Biotech with Dr. Kevin Folta

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The Regulatory Hurdles Around Gene Editing

The browning process is not linked to aspects of other aspects of ripening like, you know, breakdown of cell walls and and Pectin S or so. We have we've already achieved non regulated status for a product that went through a process called it's called the am I regulated process which has now been superseded with with different rules but would still pass under even the current rules. The USDA had already had experience and examining other products with with that had the PPO gene knocked out in them. So they deem that they didn't need to to regulate it as such. Now we've also our planning we are planning to voluntarily work with the FDA to look at our product look at

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