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HANSARDGenetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill (First sitting)Q But that is the difference between having it on a label and on a register, isn’t it? A register requires a bigger effort to check, frankly. Professor May: There is a slight…28 Jun 2022HANSARDGenetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill (First sitting)Q I am slightly sceptical here. I imagine one of my constituents going into a garage and buying a chocolate bar that was produced with some genetically edited sugar grown in…28 Jun 2022HANSARDGenetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill (Second sitting)Q I will follow up on that, in that case. If there is that confidence, why the reluctance to allow consumers to know how their food is being produced? Polling from the Food…28 Jun 2022HANSARDGenetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill (First sitting)Q It is beginning to sound to me like the difference will come down to whether it is intentional or unintentional. Professor Henderson: It is to do with intentionality, but it is…28 Jun 2022HANSARDGenetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill (First sitting)Q I think we will probably be coming back to that as we discuss the Bill line by line. Finally, what is your definition of the difference between what you have just described and…28 Jun 2022HANSARDGenetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill (First sitting)We are losing you, but I get the drift. I will leave it there.28 Jun 2022HANSARDGenetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill (First sitting)Q It starts to answer it, yes. I have the technical guidance from ACRE in front of me, which I will pursue with a subsequent witness. Most of us have understood that the Bill has…28 Jun 2022HANSARDGenetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill (First sitting)Q All that is very interesting and very good, but I do not actually see that this is covered in the Bill as it stands. This is all going to have to follow through secondary…28 Jun 2022HANSARDGenetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill (First sitting)Q Good morning and welcome. You may have heard some of the previous discussion around labelling. Indeed, it is something the Food Standards Agency has looked into. Could you tell…28 Jun 2022HANSARDGenetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill (First sitting)Q Good morning, professor. It is very good to see you. You will appreciate that one of the big discussions about this Bill is likely to be about definitions. I want to go into…28 Jun 2022HANSARDGenetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill (Second sitting)Q To follow up, I was thinking more of it the other way round. If there was a time lag or a different view was taken in Europe, would you have to have two different production…28 Jun 2022HANSARDGenetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill (Second sitting)Q Good afternoon and a warm welcome to you. May I say how much I enjoyed visiting your splendid new offices a few months ago to meet your new director? My questions are about…28 Jun 2022HANSARDGenetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill (Second sitting)Q How would you achieve that public interest test? Joanna Lewis: I would really recommend that you look to Norway’s gene technology Act. I have not gone through it line by line,…28 Jun 2022HANSARDGenetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill (Second sitting)Q Good afternoon. You will probably find my line of questioning fairly predictable. Animal welfare organisations have consistently said that they are concerned about the…28 Jun 2022HANSARDGenetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill (Second sitting)Q Where do you stand on the labelling issues? What kind of labelling do you think would be appropriate, given the advice from the Food Standards Agency? Dr Harrison: My personal…28 Jun 2022HANSARDGenetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill (Second sitting)Q Good afternoon and welcome. I am glad that you raised the impact assessment because there is a lot of interesting stuff there. Some of it is a touch surprising, which we will…28 Jun 2022HANSARDGenetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill (Second sitting)Q Thank you, that’s helpful. May I turn to the two professors? On innovation in general, in essence, the argument is that innovation will happen because obstacles are being…28 Jun 2022HANSARDGenetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill (First sitting)Q Could you say a little bit more about distinctions between the new nutritional labelling and the other labelling? I think that is important for the Committee to understand.…28 Jun 2022HANSARDGenetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill (First sitting)Q Welcome and good morning, Professor Dunwell. I am going to try to pursue some of the vexed issues of definition at the start of the Bill, and I will ask you first the question…28 Jun 2022HANSARDGenetic Technology (Precision Breeding) Bill (First sitting)Q But as far as you understand it, the purpose of the register is to give that public reassurance. It is a public information issue. Professor May: That is correct, yes.28 Jun 2022