The company came close in 2016, but local officials in Monroe County (the Florida Keys) ultimately voted no. Oxitec pulled its request and decided to try again with what it described as an upgraded version of the mosquito. That’s what the EPA approved May 1.

该公司在2016年差点就成功了，但是门罗县（佛罗里达群岛）的当地官员最终投了反对票。Oxitec公司撤回申请，决定用据称是升级版的蚊子再试一次。这就是环保局5月1日批准的转基因蚊子。

Before weekly mosquito releases can start, however, the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services and the Florida Keys Mosquito Control District have to approve.

然而，在每周释放蚊子的项目启动前，还需经过佛罗里达农业和消费者服务部以及佛罗里达群岛蚊虫控制区的批准。

The Florida Keys Environmental Coalition hopes to persuade officials to vote no again.

佛罗里达群岛环保联盟希望说服官员再次投反对票。

"We have repeatedly asked for Oxitec to work with us to prove the technology is safe," Barry Wray, executive director of the Florida Keys Environmental Coalition, said in a statement in 2018 after Oxitec applied for its second permit.

在Oxitec公司申请第二个许可证后，佛罗里达群岛环保联盟的执行理事巴里·雷2018年在一份声明中说：“我们已经反复请求Oxitec公司与我们合作来证明这一技术是安全的。”

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