On Sept. 7, 2022, the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced its decision to allow U.S. home growers to purchase and grow high-anthocyanin purple tomato seeds beginning in 2023. The purple tomato is no longer restricted due to regulations that limit “Movement of Organisms Modified or Produced through Genetic Engineering.”
This milestone regulatory decision was crucial for Norfolk Plant Sciences (NPS), as the nature of the regulatory framework in the past has made the process nearly impossible for small companies like NPS to negotiate the regulatory process without spending an extravagant amount of money.
Now that the purple tomato has received regulatory approval in the U.S., NPS is moving towards approval in various other markets across the globe — particularly in Canada
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