- 41. No consensus on GMO safety - scientists release statement
- (2013)
- ... “a small potential for adverse events … due mainly to horizontal gene transfer, allergenicity, and toxicity” and recommended that the current voluntary notification procedure practised in the US prior ...
- Created on 21 October 2013
- 42. Expert who predicted global economic crash thinks risks from GMOs too great
- (2013)
- ... r example. If I am hit with a big stone I will be harmed a lot more than if I were pelted serially with pebbles of the same weight. If you plot this response with harm on the vertical and event size on the ...
- Created on 02 September 2013
- 43. Claims of "scientific consensus" on GM are baseless
- (2013)
- ... all. It argues that there is low risk to human health from certain scenarios, including horizontal gene transfer to humans, toxic transgenes, and allergens. Its statement on allergens is the most definit ...
- Created on 13 June 2013
- 44. GM driving substantial increase in pesticides and toxins
- (2013)
- 1. GM Crop Risk Assessment Challenges: An Overview 2. GM Crops and Water - A Recipe for Disaster 1. GE Crop Risk Assessment Challenges: An Overview Dr. Charles Benbrook Food Safety News, May 6 2013 ...
- Created on 07 May 2013
- 45. Science, dogma, and Mark Lynas
- (2013)
- ... at best. Exchange between species, or horizontal gene transfer in the vernacular (HGT)-which Lynas mistakenly calls gene flow-is common between bacterial species, but this is irrelevant to GE food. It ...
- Created on 12 January 2013
- 46. GMO trees go up in smoke
- (2012)
- ... its stability within the hosting genome, apparently no data collection on the biochemical and proteomic profile of the GE plant, horizontal gene transfer in soil, composition of micro flora and fauna population ...
- Created on 01 November 2012
- 47. Pusztai's prophetic words on health risks of GM crops
- (2012)
- ... induce horizontal gene transfer, the inclusion of antibiotic resistance genes in the gene-transfer construct and the unpredictability of both the site of insertion and its consequences for the plant genom ...
- Created on 28 September 2012
- 48. GMO safety issues based on science
- (2012)
- ... genes for antibiotic resistance. Many scientists and medical professionals have expressed concerns about these genes being horizontally transferred into the gut and mouth bacteria of humans and animal ...
- Created on 15 July 2012
- 49. GM tree trials in Sweden, Poland, and Belgium
- (2011)
- ... they do not see any risk that antibiotic resistance can spread through use of antibiotic resistant bacteria in GMOs. Laboratory experiments have shown that horizontal gene transfer3, can take place. The ...
- Created on 16 November 2011
- 50. AgResearch stalls 'damaging' report
- (2011)
- ... arch's monitoring of the risk of horizontal gene transfers at its Ruakura facility. AgResearch receives a mixture of taxpayer funding and commercial backing, with about three-quarters of its funding for r ...
- Created on 23 June 2011