India’s apex biotech regulator, the Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee, has censured a government research lab conducting experiments to develop genetically modified chicken for violating key environmental laws. [...] On 30 July, in a notification just made public, GEAC ruled that the poultry lab didn’t have a biosafety committee and also hadn’t informed the Review Committee on Genetic Manipulation, a gatekeeper body that approves large-scale trials involving GM products, of their experiments.