Filed under: genetic engineering
The FDA will soon make a final decision on whether food from cloned animals is safe to enter our food supply. They released their preliminary risk assessment in December and received over 145,000 public comments opposing the unlabeled introduction of meat and milk from animal clones.
We need to know more before the FDA releases cloned animals into our food supply. The health risks associated with the consumption of food products from cloned animals is not well documented or available to consumers. Denmark has already banned food from cloned animals and the entire European Union is examining this closely.
Filed under: genetic engineering
Earlier this month the Center for Food Safety voiced concern regarding a study issued by a team of researchers on the potential harm posed by the genetically engineered (GE) Bt variety of corn. The study, published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences, establishes that pollen and other material from Bt corn is washing into streams and river headwaters. The study further found through laboratory trials that Bt corn material is toxic to insects that play an important role in aquatic ecosystems. As a result, Bt corn may pose a serious threat to our nation’s waterways and the plants, fish and animals that inhabit them.
“This is yet another example of a government agency granting clearance for a GE organism without requiring meaningful or stringent testing,” said Joseph Mendelson, Legal Director of the Center for Food Safety. “Bt corn is planted widely throughout the U.S. Had a study like this been done prior to the government’s approval, we would not be looking at a popular crop that has the potential to broadly disrupt the environment.”
read more…(Center for Food Safety)
