
An alarming
study published in the
Journal of Biological Science this week points toward serious health hazards from genetically engineered foods and pesticides. The research, conducted by scientists from France, Italy, New Zealand, U.K. and U.S., corroborates the decade-long criticism by public interest organizations such as the
Organic Consumers Association,
Greenpeace, and
Friends of the Earth that
European Food Safety bureaucrats and the
U.S. FDA have used unreliable tests to assess the safety of food and products containing
genetically modified organisms (GMOs).
GMOs are now found in more than 80% of (non-organic) foods sold in conventional grocery stores in the U.S., as well as the majority of animal feed in the EU.
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Labels: FDA, genetically engineered, genetically modified, GMO, study
# posted by Striving4Zen : 7/17/2009


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