..panies can get around that oversight by avoiding components from plant pests. In Scotts’ newer grasses, for instance, the foreign genetic material comes only from other plants and is inserted with a gene gun rather than by the bacterium. “If you take genetic material from a plant and it’s not considered a pest, and you don’t use a transformation technology that would sort of violate the rules, there’s a bunch of stuff you can do that at least technically is unregulated,” Jim Hagedorn, Scotts chief executive, told analysts in December 2013. He said the company nearly shut down its biotech program after the previous mishap, until it hit upon the new strategy and created “a stunning array of products that are not regulated.”
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