Food Science & Cooking · Recorded milestone
Gene-engineered cheese enzyme
Recorded year1990
The US approves chymosin made by engineered microbes to curdle milk for cheese, the first GM ingredient in food; it now makes most US cheese.
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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.