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Conclusion
Published in Jonathan Anomaly, Creating Future People, 2020
But a lot of fear comes simply from using new technologies. So far the science is pretty clear: genetically modified food is just as nutritious and in many cases cheaper and healthier than traditional crops, and it is better for the environment than traditional crops, even if we do need to guard against monocultures (Pellegrino et al., 2018). It can also help us avoid the need to spray crops with pesticides, since we can build disease resistance into genetically modified plants. Popular opposition to genetic modification is beginning to fade as consumption of modified food becomes more widespread. It is likely, I think, that a similar pattern will emerge for genetically enhanced embryos.
Environmental Impact Assessment: Environmental Health and Food Safety
Published in Stefania Negri, Environmental Health in International and EU Law, 2019
1. Food contamination, that affects or may affect, in varying degrees, the quality of the food and generate diseases, in addition to the problems that affect the water consumption. Whether if it is chemical or microbiological contamination. The risks that can be associated to genetically modified food. Also, the persistent toxic substances, that are substances external to the organism that persist for a long time in the environment, accumulate in the biological tissues and produce harmful effects on health.19 There is a regulatory body in the European Union between Regulations and Recommendations that establishes measures regarding the presence of contaminants in the food.20
Determination of Toxicity
Published in David Woolley, Adam Woolley, Practical Toxicology, 2017
For food additives, the inclusion level may be raised to 10%, but care has to be taken with nutrition of the animals. This factor is likely to be a problem in testing high concentrations of individual genetically modified foods, as it is unlikely that effects will be expressed at normal dietary inclusion levels. However, the relevance of effects expressed at unrealistically high dietary inclusion of such foods should be questioned before the study begins, there being no point in generating data that are irrelevant. As an alternative to the diet, the drinking water may be used as a route of administration, but this has a number of disadvantages over the diet, especially in tracking the amounts of water, and therefore, chemical, ingested as distinct from that spilled.
Non-Human Germline Interventions
Published in The American Journal of Bioethics, 2020
Transfers are incredibly common in agribusiness. Genes from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis have been inserted into potatoes, cotton, and corn, endowing those crops with (ethically problematic) insecticidal properties. The genome of the hyper-productive “Golden rice” was modified by introducing into the rice genome genes from the daffodil Narcissus pseudonarcissus and a gene from the bacterium Erwinia uredovora (Fridovich-Kell and Diaz 2020). Efforts by DNA Plant Technology of Oakland, CA, to incorporate a flounder gene into a tomato (in order to increase the tomato’s tolerance to frost), though they were abandoned as unpromising in the earliest phase of research, gave rise to a kind of anti-GMO folk-myth of the fish-mato (Mother Earth News 2000). These gene transfers are the source of a great deal of ethical debate, undoubtedly familiar to most readers of this journal. Issues include the persistent worry that genetically modified foods may not be safe for human consumption; that fast-growing genetically modified crops may not be as nutritious as non-modified versions; and that modifications will induce unexpected and unpredictable environmental impacts as the ecosystem adapts and responds to the introduction of modified species (Uzogara 2000).
Current progress of immunoinformatics approach harnessed for cellular- and antibody-dependent vaccine design
Published in Pathogens and Global Health, 2018
Ada Kazi, Candy Chuah, Abu Bakar Abdul Majeed, Chiuan Herng Leow, Boon Huat Lim, Chiuan Yee Leow
Immunoinformatics approach can also be used to determine the allerginicity and allergic cross-reactivity of protein as well as genetically modified food crops. Currently, allergic informatics focuses on quality data management, T- and B-cell epitope predictions, allergic assessment and allergic cross reactivity. Guidelines have been proposed by World Health Organization (WHO) and Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) for evaluating allerginicity of genetically modified food. AlgPred [51], and ALLERMATCH [52] are among the servers that have been used for allergen prediction [6,23].
Relationship between Serum Tumor-Related Markers and Genetically Modified Rice Expressing Cry1Ab Protein in Sprague-Dawley Rats
Published in Nutrition and Cancer, 2022
Bahador Hajimohammadi, Gilda Eslami, Elahe Loni, Mohammad Hassan Ehrampoush, Seyed Mohammad Moshtaghioun, Hossein Fallahzadeh, Seyed Ali Yasini Ardakani, Saeedeh Sadat Hosseini, Vahideh Askari
There is an urgent need to improve and increase food production to supply the recently increased population consumption and lower-income countries in the world. Genetically modified foods (GM foods) have been genetically manipulated for improving one of these properties: insect resistance, herbicide tolerance, improved nutrition quality, and increased production efficiency. GM food safety risk assessments represent a challenge, and based on the principle; there is a reasonable assurance that GM food consumption will not harm consumer health (1).