AquaBounty is an aquaculture company raising fresh Atlantic salmon in safe, secure, and sustainable land-based farms in North America.
Few food products have undergone the breadth and depth of scientific, environmental, and regulatory scrutiny that AquaBounty’s GE Atlantic salmon has. After decades of thorough, exhaustive reviews from top experts and leading authorities in the United Stated and Canada, our fish has been proven time and again to be safe and nutritious, and our aquafarming methods to be state of the art and conscientious.
By contrast, the entire basis of a tendentious recent report from the activist group “Block Corporate Salmon” is the narrative of a single former employee who worked at one of our facilities a number of years ago. The report authors themselves write that many of these claims were brought to independent authorities. The authors further note that the authorities “dismissed” these claims after three-month investigation, and concluded that “AquaBounty was justified” in parting ways with this former employee.
Of course, AquaBounty takes such allegations seriously. We are regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and operate our facilities to high standards of food safety and consumer health, worker safety, animal welfare, and environmental impact. In fact, we recently completed an independent Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) audit of our processing facility, recieving high marks for our operations and practices.
Our land-based farms use recirculated water and don't contribute to ocean pollution or harm sensitive ocean habitats, which are so important to wild salmon. Extensive physical containment and biological security barriers help ensure our AquaBounty salmon are safe, protected from escape, and cannot reproduce with wild salmon. We are raising salmon on land to further protect and preserve wild salmon populations and do so in an efficient and sustainable way.
“Block Corporate Salmon” makes their mission clear in their name. But the public deserves to know that this group’s latest attempt to fight progress and innovation in feeding a hungry world is nothing more than a rehash of previously debunked claims.
We have every confidence that consumers, armed with all the facts, will see it for exactly what it is.
