Pocket Ks
International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications
Pocket Ks are Pockets of Knowledge. They provide packaged information on a wide range of issues related to crop biotechnology products. GM food safety, microbial fermentation, biofuels, biopharmaceuticals, and molecular pharming are but some of the topics included.
Are There Health Hazards for the Consumer from Eating Genetically Modified Food?
The Union of the German Academies of Science and Humanities, 2006
Based on the published scientific literature, this report examines the potential hazards and risks of consuming genetically modified (GM) plant products. Toxicity, carcinogenicity and food allergenicity, and the possible effects of consuming foreign DNA (including antibiotic resistance genes) are all taken into account.
Ecological Impacts of Genetically Engineered Crops: Ten Years of Field Research and Commercial Cultivation
Olivier Sanvido, Michèle Stark, Jörg Romeis and Franz Bigler, Information Systems for Biotechnology, December, 2006
Concerns have been raised that the commercial cultivation of GE crops could result in adverse effects on the environment. The report therefore reviewed the scientific knowledge on environmental impacts of GE crops derived from ten years of worldwide experimental field research and commercial cultivation.
Biopharming and the Food System: Examining the Potential Benefits and Risks
Aziz Elbehri, AgBioForum, 2005
Biopharming (using crops as drug-producing bioreactors) offers tremendous economic and health benefits stimulated by improving biotechnology methods. However, these benefits must be weighed against the pote
Unpalatable Truths
Debora MacKenzie, New Scientist, April 1999.
Demanding proof that genetically modified foods are safe is all very well, but without a rational system for testing conventional foods, we may never get it.
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