Consumer, environmental, farming groups say synthetic biology is not natural or sustainable
Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–June 2, 2014. In an open letterreleased today, 17 national and international consumer, environmental, women’s health and farming groups called on leading “natural” cleaning and personal care products manufacturer Ecover and its U.S.-based subsidiary, Method Products Inc., to cancel plans to use oils and other ingredients derived from synthetic biology, a new and unregulated set of genetic engineering techniques. Earlier this…
