By Chris McDonald This post examines why we are generally comfortable with non-GMO plants being released without safety testing, but have very different standards for plants developed with GMO methods. Are hybrid fruits & vegetables safe? The short answer from this…
Tag: Food safety
Why no one will ever “prove that GMOs are safe”
When discussing transgenic crops, I regularly get asked to provide a paper that “proves” that GMOs are safe. Whether you want proof that biotech crops, organic bananas, or conventional peaches are safe, I cannot provide you with such a paper.…
Review of “Complete Genes May Pass from Food to Human Blood”
The 2013 PLoS One article Complete Genes May Pass from Food to Human Blood is often used as evidence that genes from GMO can “transfer” into our bodies (such as in this article from Collective Evolution). In this post, I’d…
Read More Review of “Complete Genes May Pass from Food to Human Blood”
The European Union’s opposition to GM crops has nothing to do with safety
Written by Alexander Huszagh Two years ago, a woman in a classroom with me muttered "isn't that a good thing?" about the ban on the cultivation and importation of most genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in the European Union (EU), "it…
Read More The European Union’s opposition to GM crops has nothing to do with safety
Q&A with Haven Baker on Simplot’s Innate™ Potatoes
There's a new genetically engineered potato in town that doesn't brown when cut or fried, nor does it make acrylamide. J. R. Simplot Company petitioned the USDA to deregulate their Innate™ potatoes, and the public comment period has just been…
Read More Q&A with Haven Baker on Simplot’s Innate™ Potatoes
Genetically modified plants as fish feed ingredients
There has been a long and tortuous discussion of Steve Savage's post Way Too Much Angst about GMO crops covering many of the usual topics. But among the hundreds of comments there is at last some gold. Fishy smelling gold.…
Read More Genetically modified plants as fish feed ingredients
The EFSA is doing traceback of E. coli contaminated fenugreek seeds imported into the EU. Preston and Tribe do traceback with plagiarised junk science.
The European food safety authority is currently tracing the sources and distribution of allegedly deadly E. coli contaminated fenugreek seeds originating in Egypt which have been implicated in several different outbreaks of severe pathogenic E. coli infections occurring these last weeks in…
Worried about deliberate introduction of the German E. coli germ? Please read this.
(Updated 21-06-2011] Enough information is now emerging from the frantic work of the DNA sequencing teams and the crowdsourced intense detective work by bioinformatics experts (all mentioned in several previous posts at this site) to assemble a broad picture of how…
Read More Worried about deliberate introduction of the German E. coli germ? Please read this.
Genetic family trees show the German outbreak of E coli is a member of small family of germs called EAEC — that includes an African germ — and is distinct from EHECs
The latest news is that the German outbreak strain of Escherichia coli is a member of small family of germs called EAEC that includes an African member (Ec55989 ). This family is clearly distinct from classical EHEC (=STEC) bacteria such…
Natural GMOs Part 86: The parents of the German E. coli germ engaged in horizontal gene transfer
STEC/EHEC outbreak – horizontally transferred genes « bacpathgenomics: "STEC/EHEC outbreak – horizontally transferred genes"Kat Holt has produced a fantastic visual presentation of the family tree of the German disease causing E. coli EHEC/EAEC/STEC germ.The Pundit won't spoil her story with…