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Nature 421, 304 (23 January 2003) | doi:10.1038/421304b
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Transgenic salmon still out in the cold in United States
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Approval for the commercial farming of transgenic salmon in the United States remains at least 18 months off, say officials at Aqua Bounty Farms in Waltham, Massachusetts, the only company that has filed for approval to produce them.The progress of the application, made by Aqua Bounty Farms in November 1996, has been watched avidly by advocates of transgenic technology — including researchers hoping to develop their own genetically modified fish — who had hoped that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) would have given its approval by now (see Nature 406, 10–12; 2000).
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