Appropriate regulation of GM insects

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) is to be commended on developing an EIS under the National Environmental Protection Act to assess potential future programmatic use of GM insects to augment its existing sterile-insect control programmes. Regulators make robust, science-based decisions, taking data and input from a wide range of sources and using internal and external multi-disciplinary experts to carefully assess data quality and gaps and potential harms and mitigations, and ultimately determine a course of action that appropriately protects all stakeholders.