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I'm just assuming you're concerned about cross-pollination. From my understanding as long as adequate buffer zones between similar crops are followed there's very little to worry about. Like stories about farmers getting sued for having their fields pollinated with GM variants were bogus and the farmer everyone usually sites was found to just be replanting GM seed.
Adequate buffer zones won't be 100% implemented, though. Nobody's going to make them do that worldwide.
Would be better to introduce genetic incompatibilities so that GMOs were infertile with non-GMOs.
I guess if that was your goal they would probably have to insert a novel gene that wouldn't be present in say, the over 10,000 different varieties of conventionally bred tomatoes and then engineer the plant to produce sterile seeds, but that seems like a much more concerning trait to let out into the wild than beans expressing umami flavor. Terminator seed technology has been around for a while but as far as I know there have been no commercial applications because it worries a lot of different groups.
You can make plants unable to interbreed efficiently by inducing and exploiting polyploidy.
There's still the risk of people spreading it. Sortta like espionage vineyard grafts of heirloom grapes or something. This kinda thing worries me, in this case I don't think there's such thing as too much precaution.
I'm not really sure what you mean by spreading it, like some bad actors are going to porkify the soy industry through guerilla farming? The challenge of gathering and preserving that much seed aside, for commercial farmers who grow GM crops it's very finicky to get those beneficial traits to be expressed through each subsequent generation through traditional breeding.