GMO Research
Abstract: The Biotechnology and Food Safety Report issued jointly by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and World Health Organization (WHO), is the result of an Expert Consultation held in Rome, in October 1996. The Consultation was the latest, possibly the most significant, attempt to reach international agreement on the safety of genetically engineered (GE) …
Abstract: Genetically modified foods provide one of the major challenges facing the food industry in the twenty-first century worldwide. The safety of genetically modified foods are being questioned by scientists, researchers and doctors as it is believed that these foods may pose a serious public health risk, especially for the young, aged, pregnant and immunocompromised …
Abstract: We would be wise to hold off until we know more about the health, ecological and economic effects of genetically modified food. Keywords: Australia, Microbial Drug Resistance, Facility Regulation and Control, Food-Processing Industry, Humans, Nutrition Policy, Genetically Modified Plants, Public Health, Safety, Biomedical Technology Assessment; Organization & Administration, Economics, Standards, Adverse Effects Citation: Leeder, …
Abstract: The primary responsibility of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is to protect public health by ensuring the safety of the food supply. To that end, it sometimes conducts risk assessments of novel food products, such as genetically modified (GM) food. The FDA describes its regulatory review of GM food (of both the …
Abstract: Food safety is quite important for human health in all countries. Humanity has the uniform space and must take care about all parts of it. Pollution of one region leads to the same state of others regions through water, land, air, living organisms. The poor-quality or poisoned food products can pollute the territory and …
Abstract: The purpose of this article is to provide nutrition educators with an introduction to a range of considerations and forces that are driving the application of modern biotechnology in the food and fiber sector based on a food systems perspective. In doing so, the following issues are critically assessed: (1) the global debate on …
Abstract: The US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) 1992 policy statement was developed in the context of critical gaps in scientific knowledge concerning the compositional effects of genetic transformation and severe limitations in methods for safety testing. FDA acknowledged that pleiotropy and insertional mu‐tagenesis may cause unintended changes, but it was unknown whether this happens …
Abstract: This article analyzes all of the food safety-related aspects related to the use of genetically modified organisms into agriculture and food. A discussion is provided as to the uncertainties related to the insertion of foreign genes into organisms, providing examples of unforeseen, undesirable effects and of instabilities of the organisms thus artificially fabricated. Data …
Abstract: Consumers in the United States are unaware that they have high daily and long-term exposure levels to novel and untested genetically modified substances through a heavy consumption of genetically modified plant food (“GM food”). This ignorance exists because labeling of GM ingredients on food packaging is not required by the Food & Drug Administration …
Text: A letter by Vain in the November issue (Nat. Biotechnol. 23, 1348–1349, 2005) reports a study of two major science literature databases and tracks broad trends in plant transgenic science knowledge from 1973 to 2003. The study identified 30,624 papers, of which 14.8% related to technology development, 71.3% related to applications of technology and …
Text: “Genetically Modified Foods: Breeding Uncertainty” (Schmidt 2005) overlooked many serious concerns about the environmental and health risks of this new technology. Potential problems from antibiotic-resistant genes used in gene-altered crops, risks from unintended effects of the genetic engineering process, the increases in pesticide use stemming from widespread planting of gene-spliced varieties—these and several other …
Text: It is indeed a fortunate facet of science that the quantitative aspect of authorship does not dictate the validity of the conclusions! The impetus for my commentary was my repeated laboratory observation that the slightest genetic modification of a cell leads to completely unpredicted phenotypes. A careful reading of the plant literature supported my …
Abstract: The controversy over genetically engineered (GE) food during the southern Africa drought in 2002/03 raised questions concerning the safety of GE foods and the basis for the safety assurances issued by national and international agencies. In the case of foods grown in the US, these assurances must be interpreted in relation to the Food …
Abstract: Though scientists believe that issues of risk can be handled without appeal to values in general or ethics in particular, this is demonstrably false. The very notion of risk is enmeshed in a complex of social ethics. This is clearly true with regard to food safety. With this in mind, it is plausible to …
Abstract: It is widely recognized that the absence of any food safety program or system such as HACCP and ISO-22000, might lead to food poisoning among wide range of population caused by food contamination. The importance of such food safety programs or systems lies in the fact that prevents food contamination or at least minimizes …
Abstract: Biotechnology is a vital issue that impacts all of us. Development of genetically modified organisms is one of the highest achievements of this technology. It is being released throughout our environment and deployed with superficial or no risk assessments about its matchless powers to harm life. Within the next few years, many types of …
Text: Introduction. With the advent of introducing genetic engineering in agricultural sciences and food production, food safety has become a major issue.[1] The genetic content of the organisms is altered using these techniques that result into genetically engineered organism (plants/animals) also known as genetically modified organisms. Human beings mainly depend upon plants for their food …
Abstract: Objective. This study aimed to evaluate the healthy risk of genetically modified (GM) soybeans using a novel approach for functions and safety of food. Method. Different from traditional evaluation of substantial equivalence, three innovations were performed in this study, involving basic diet, evaluation approaches and principle, as well as the clarification of connotation differences …
Abstract: According to legislation in Iran, the importation of transgenic products should be banned due to the lack of strong evidence for the safety of genetically modified foods. Therefore, the detection of genetically modified on importing products should perform by food control laboratories. In this study, specific primers were designed for 35S promoter (500 bp), …
Abstract: Genetic engineering of food plants may carry allergic properties of the donor source into the recipient plant, and current Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations are inadequate to protect the public from exposure to the resultant allergenic foods. A recent study examined the effect of introducing Brazil nut genes into soy beans, which was …
Abstract: Consumer response to genetically altered foods has been mixed in the United States. While transgenic crops have entered the food supply with little comment, other foods, such as the bioengineered tomato, have caused considerable controversy. Objections to genetically engineered food are varied, ranging from the religious to the aesthetic. One need not endorse these …
Text: In our lifetime we are experiencing never before seen rates of obesity, with a 68% rate of overweight in adults. In my field of gynecologic oncology, our surgical cases have become tremendously challenging due to the large size of our patients. When I was in residency training in the mid 1980s, it was rare …
Abstract: Biotechnology is providing us with a wide range of options for how we can use agricultural and commercial forestry lands. The cultivation of genetically modified (GM) crops on millions of hectares of lands and their injection into our food chain is a huge global genetic experiment involving all living beings. Considering the fast pace …
Abstract: This article documents the early warning signs of health and environmental dangers of DDT, vinyl chloride, and leaded gasoline. In each case, industry scientists and/or public health officials warned of potential hazards but their advice was ignored at great cost to human health and the environment. Now, genetically engineered (GE) foods have been introduced …
Text: There is an increasing interest worldwide in genetically modified (GM) food, also known as genetically modified organisms or living modified organisms. Genetic modification implies the introduction of genes from plants or animals into other organisms to change their behaviour and development. Genetic manipulation can endow such organisms with the ability to increase yield, resist …
