What potential risks are considered when assessing the environmental safety of genetically modified agricultural plants?
Genetically modified agricultural plants (plants with novel traits or “PNTs”), including those modified through modern biotechnology, may have the potential to cause unintended effects on the environment. Because of this, government evaluators carefully assess potential impacts before these modified plants can be released into the environment. Environmental safety assessments examine five broad categories of possible impacts of a PNT.
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