What else could 2020 bring to Florida? Genetically altered, lab bred mosquitoes
What else could 2020 bring to Florida? Genetically altered, lab bred mosquitoes
Tags: Genetic biocontrol, North America, Oxitec, Sterile insect technique (SIT)J. Haughey, The Center Square, 2020.
A British biotech company has received an experimental use permit from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to release millions of genetically modified mosquitoes in the Florida Keys this summer.
The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services and the Florida Keys Mosquito Control District (FKMCD) board must approve the permit before Oxitec can proceed.
The EPA approved Oxitec’s permit May 1 despite 31,174 people objecting to it and 56 people supporting it during a 30-day comment period that expired in mid-October
