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Human Health

System Failure: Abort and Retry

Posted on December 23, 2015 in GMOs | 230 Views | Leave a response
Historic posts are reprinted verbatim from their original source. Source: Statement of Mark Lipson, Policy Program Director, Organic Farming and Research Foundation, Food and Drug Administration, Public Hearing on “Biotechnology in the Year 2000 and Beyond,” Oakland CA, December 13, 1999 [Federal Register Docket# 99N-4282] The Organic Farming Research Foundation is a producer-directed organization dedicated to the improvement and adoption of […]

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Genetically Engineered Food Needs Better Regulation

Posted on December 23, 2015 in GMOs | 80 Views | Leave a response
Historic posts are reprinted verbatim from their original source. Source: Marc Kaufman, The Washington Post, Wednesday, April 5, 2000 Genetically engineered crops appear to be safe but the government should better coordinate how it regulates them to make sure they don’t pose a danger to the environment or human health, a National Academy of Sciences report concluded […]

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Federal Panel Is Wary of Gene-Altered Corn

Posted on December 23, 2015 in GMOs | 70 Views | Leave a response
Historic posts are reprinted verbatim from their original source. Source: Andrew Pollack, The New York Times, December 4, 2000 A federal advisory panel concluded yesterday that there was a “medium likelihood” that the genetically engineered corn known as StarLink is a potential allergen, a finding that could hurt the food industry’s quest to have the […]

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Arpad Pusztai Responds to a Critic

Posted on December 23, 2015 in GMOs, Scientific Integrity | 324 Views | Leave a response
Historic posts are reprinted verbatim from their original source. This response to Dr. Morton by Arpad Pusztai was part of an ongoing dialogue in 1999 or 2000 over published papers on the risks posed by genetically engineered foods. Dear Dr Morton, We now seem to be playing silly games with numbers and other unfortunate deviations […]

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Dr. Pusztai responds the Royal Society

Posted on December 23, 2015 in GMOs, Scientific Integrity | 128 Views | Leave a response
Historic posts are reprinted verbatim from their original source. Source: Dr Arpad Pusztai, Letter to the Royal Society, May 18. 1999 The Royal Society (RS) have updated their report on GM-food of September 1998. They have peer-reviewed the nutritional and immunology data on GM-potato work carried out at the Rowett Research Institute (Rowett) between 1995 & […]

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Lectin Research

Posted on December 23, 2015 in GMOs, Scientific Integrity | 94 Views | Leave a response
Historic posts are reprinted verbatim from their original source. Source: Transcript from Channel 4 News (UK), October 15, 1999 Andrew Veitch reported that biotech companies have invested millions in trying to engineer potatoes, maize and grapes to carry their own insecticides called lectins. That’s one reason for the alarm when Dr.Arpad Pusztai, a world expert on […]

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Leaving a Bad Taste

Posted on December 23, 2015 in GMOs, Scientific Integrity | 103 Views | Leave a response
Historic posts are reprinted verbatim from their original source. Source: Peta Firth, Scientific American, May 1999 British scientist Arpad Pusztai, who was fired last year from the Rowett Research Institute in Aberdeen, Scotland, and banned from speaking to the press for a while, told a parliamentary select committee on March 8 in London he had no regrets […]

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GM Food Debate: Several Letters re: the Pusztai and Ewen publication

Posted on December 23, 2015 in GMOs, Scientific Integrity | 172 Views | Leave a response
Historic posts are reprinted verbatim from their original source. Source: The Lancet, Volume 354, Number 9191, November 13, 1998 Allan Mowat Anthony J FitzGerald, Robert A Goodlad, Nicholas A Wright Peter Lachmann S. W. B. Ewen and A. Pusztai Sean Munro Brian Fenton et al D. C. Kilpatrick Brian Fenton, Kiri Stanley, Steven Fenton, Caroline Bolton-Smith Carl B […]

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Genetically Modified Foods: Are They a Risk to Human/Animal Health?

Posted on December 23, 2015 in GMOs, Scientific Integrity | 391 Views | Leave a response
Historic posts are reprinted verbatim from their original source. Arpad Pusztai, Ph.D., June 2001 Scarcity of safety tests How can the public make informed decisions about GM foods when there is so little information about its safety? The lack of data is due to a number of reasons, including: It’s more difficult to evaluate the safety […]

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Comments in letters to Dr. Pusztai

Posted on December 23, 2015 in GMOs, Scientific Integrity | 230 Views | Leave a response
Historic posts are reprinted verbatim from their original source. Professor Brian Goodwin, scholar in residence, Schumacher College Dr. Stanley Ewen, consultant histopathologist at the University of Aberdeen Medical School Dr. Vyvyan Howard, Head of Research in Fetal and Infant Toxico-Pathology at the University of Liverpool February 14, 1999 “I find Dr. Pusztai’s conclusions to be […]

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