Canadian company's genetically modified apples win US approval

Twin varieties have been designed to resist browning but organic advocates say selling the fruit amounts to a 'big experiment on humans' US regulators have approved what would be the first commercialised biotech apples, rejecting efforts by the organic industry and other GMO critics to block the new fruit. The US Department of Agriculture's animal and plant health authority, Aphis, approved two genetically engineered apple varieties designed to resist browning that have been developed by the Can...