Countries have been setting up regulations to deal with gene-edited crops such as CRISPR. While some countries have treated gene-edited crops as traditional GM crops from a regulatory standpoint, the US and other countries have made the regulatory process less stringent when gene-editing is used to create something that could have been done with traditional breeding methods such a point mutations involving only one base pair.
EPA recently ruled that they will require human health and environmental data if the gene-editing produces a plant-incorporated protectant.
EPA decision to tighten oversight of gene-edited crops draws mixed response
