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Food safety Western Australia style : Comments

By Ian Edwards, published 2/7/2007

Western Australia’s Minister for Agriculture has funded a secret study by a known anti-GM activist under the preposterous claim it is 'independent'.

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http://www.ideaireland.org/gmfoodhealth.htm
"The gene insertion process (in GM process) is very inefficient and requires that an antibiotic resistance marker gene be coupled to the desired foreign gene.

This allows plants cells that have taken up the foreign gene to be selected by growth in the presence of the appropriate antibiotic. Once selected, GM transformed cells are stimulated to develop into fully mature plants.

There are potentially serious health concerns arising from the use of the GM process. Overall the GM transformation process (foreign gene insertion plus tissue culture propagation of plant material) is known to be highly mutagenic and can cause hundreds or even thousands of disruptions to the ordinary command code sequence in the DNA and may disturb the functioning of the cell in unpredictable and potentially hazardous ways. These new genes will of course cause the creation of new proteins, which will generally be alien to the plant, and may, in the worst case, be toxic, allergenic or otherwise detrimental to heath.

The characteristics of a protein with known allergenicity that would distinguish it from a protein unlikely to be allergenic are not known and further difficulties in the elucidation of allergenicity, including the availability of allergen-specific antisera have also been outlined."
Posted by Is it really safe?, Wednesday, 29 August 2007 8:46:26 PM
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Is it safe.

No scientist truely knows anything for sure. The suggestion that genetic modification is less precise then cross breeding, radiation mutagenesis or chemical mutagenesis breeding is simple incorrect. It is the most precise method man has ever used to generate new crops. If you have a problem with its efficiency then you must have a bigger one with all other methods. European Food Safety Agency said "genetically modified plants and products derived from them present no risk to human health or the environment...more precise technology and greater regulatory scrutiny probably make these crops and products even safer than plants and products generated from conventional plant breeding." of course it only took the EFSA 15 years and over 60 research proje`ct at a cost of 70 million Euros to come to this conclusion.

I do not Lie, period.

Please have a look at the German Academy of Humanisties and science Report on the allergen allegations. (linked on my website)

An excellent review article was resently published out of Spain. Biosafety and Risk assessment framework for selectable marker genes(antibiotic and herbicide tolerance genes to you) in Transgenic Crop Plants: A case of Science not Supporting the Politics. by Christou et al In it you can read all the reseach that leeads food regulators around the world to their safe conclusions about GM crops and Food.

and

The UN-OECD report on the safety of Bt crops is a very good read.
http://www.agbios.com/docroot/articles/07-214-001.pdf In it you can read all the reseach done to demonstrate the safety of Bt crops. The front of the document shows all those scientific organizations that signed onto this document and its safe conclusion for Bt crops.

Enjoy the reading
Posted by RobW, Friday, 31 August 2007 7:57:53 AM
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Hi Safe,

Allergic reactions occur almost immediately after exposure to the allergen. If it is a food protein, certainly within an hour or so of ingestion. You would know. http://www.fedupwithfoodadditives.info/factsheets/Factallergy.htm That is why we can be sure that the current GM foods on the market do not cause allergic reactions.

L-tryptophan problems were due to a faulty filtering process. The problems were known before GM L-tryptophan came onto the market and have been see since. The FDA has a full discussion:
http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/ds-tryp1.html
http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~lrd/tp5htp.html
http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/NEW00064.html
http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/ds-ltr3.html

Somewhat ironically, this condition might never had come to pass had the alternative and complementary medicine industry not promoted high doses of L-tryptophan in the first place
Posted by Agronomist, Sunday, 2 September 2007 6:13:45 PM
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