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ACRE advice: application for a field trial of genetically modified barley (21/R54/01)

ACRE's advice on an application to carry out a field trial of genetically modified barley.

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ACRE advice: application for a field trial of GM barley (21/R54/01)

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These documents are the advice of the Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment (ACRE) to government on an application from the Cambridge University Crop Science Centre to carry out a field trial of genetically modified barley.

The committee advised that the risks to human health and the environment from this trial are extremely low.

Published 19 April 2022