Veterinary & Animal Tech · Recorded milestone
First gene-modified food animal
Recorded year2015
The US approves AquaBounty's AquAdvantage salmon, engineered with a growth gene to reach market size in about half the time.
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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.