This approach does not apply to animals created with older, cruder technologies commonly used, for example, for the geneticimprovement of fowl, pigs and cows.
If anything, they are likely to be safer, because the techniques used to make them are far more precise and predictable than older, conventional methods of geneticimprovement.
"There's been lots of geneticimprovement on food crops for post-harvest handling and that's essentially what we're doing for Christmas trees, " Mr. Frampton said.