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Is genetically modified food safe to eat?

Topics: Genetically Modified Food Genetics Science Health

Background

Since the first genetically modified food was put on the market in the 1990s, there has been controversy as to its safety. While conventional breeding for thousands of years has modified the genetic code of organisms, genetic engineering enables the precise modification of genetic code, even allowing the genes of one species to be injected into another.

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Biology Professor

Genetically modified foods are as safe to eat as foods made from plants modified by more traditional methods of plant breeding. In fact, they are very probably safer, simply because they undergo testing that has never been required for food plants modified either by traditional breeding techniques or by mutagenesis, both of which can alter a plant's chemical composition.

24 Feb 2005 Source

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Activist, Writer

There is irrefutable evidence that GM foods are unsafe to eat...

28 Nov 2007 Source