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- The Absurdity of Claiming that “All GMOs are Safe” In an op-ed piece in The New York Times, Mark Lynas recently wrote that “There is an equivalent level of scientific consensus on both issues…that climate change is real and genetically modified foods are safe.” But comparing the issues …
- Time To Talk “Conflicts of Interest” In Relation to GMOs Scientific conflicts of interest have been in the news a lot lately. For example, a federal judge recently ruled that various members of the FDA’s Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee had conflicts of interest and…
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Tag Archives: Calgene
Gene Editing’s Extra DNA Problem: Déjà Vu All Over Again
UC Davis researcher Alison Van Eenennaam described the experience of learning that the “poster animals for the gene-editing revolution” do not, after all, comprise the “same outcome [that] could be achieved by breeding in the farmyard,” like she and her collaborators … Continue reading
Posted in Biotechnology
Tagged ag biotech, Agrobacterium, Alison Van Eenennaam, antibiotic resistance, Calgene, CRISPR, FDA, Flavr Savr tomato, Genetic Engineering, genetically engineered food, GMO, Meat, Nature Biotechnology, Plant Cell, Recombinetics, Regulation of GMOs, Science, Technology, UC Davis, unintended changes in GE crops, unintended effects, USDA
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Food Evolution Film Neglects to Mention Important Facts…Like Glyphosate is a Probable Human Carcinogen
The film Food Evolution, despite being narrated by Neil deGrasse Tyson, has been called “a slick piece of GMO propaganda” by Marion Nestle, a prominent nutrition scientist at NYU who was interviewed for it. In response to Nestle’s tweet on … Continue reading
Posted in Biotechnology
Tagged Bruce Chassy, Calgene, Charles Benbrook, David Shaw, FDA, Flavr Savr tomato, Food Evolution, Fred Gould, Genetic Engineering, genetically engineered food, glyphosate, GMO, IARC, Kevin Folta, Marion Nestle, Michael Pollan, Monsanto, Nature, New York Times, NK603 corn, propaganda, rat feeding studies, Regulation of GMOs, Richard Feynman, Roundup, San Francisco Chronicle, Seralini, transparency, World Health Organization
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Informing USDA’s and FDA’s Thinking About Crops/Foods Derived From Plant Varieties Produced Using Genome Editing Techniques Like CRISPR-Cas9
Both the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have asked the public for comments on how these agencies might deal with crops and foods derived from new plant … Continue reading
Kudos to Campbell Soup for Supporting Mandatory Federal GMO Labeling
As announced in a company press release and reported by The New York Times on January 8, Campbell Soup Company is calling for mandatory federal labeling of foods “that may contain genetically modified organisms (GMOs)….“[Such foods/ingredients are also known as … Continue reading
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Tagged Calgene, FDA, Flavr Savr tomato, GE labeling, Genetic Engineering, genetically engineered food, GMOs, Prop 37
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Twenty Years Ago Today Biotech Food was Commercially Launched
Today is the 20th anniversary of the first sales of the world’s first genetically engineered (GE), commercially available, whole food: the Flavr Savr™ tomato. High-end Flavr Savrs, dubbed “MacGregor’s®” tomatoes, available that day at the State Market IGA in Davis, … Continue reading
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Tagged Calgene, Flavr Savr tomato, GE labeling, Genetic Engineering, genetically engineered food, GMO labels
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A Dearth of Life-Long Animal Studies of GE Foods
I’ve been corresponding with individual email-writers and I’ll occasionally post versions of my responses here because they tend to touch upon multiple issues related to genetically engineered (GE) crops in one piece (whereas I usually focus on fewer issues in … Continue reading
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Tagged Bt10, Calgene, CDC, Coordinated Framework, EPA, FDA, Food Additive Petition, Food and Chemical Toxicology, Genetic Engineering, genetically engineered food, genetically engineered sweet corn, Monsanto, Monsanto's sweet corn, NK603 corn, Seralini, StarLinkTM corn, Substantial Equivalence, Syngenta, The Lancet, unintended changes in GE crops, USDA, USDA's Plant Pest List
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Science-Based Regulation of GE Crops Requires More Long-Term Rat Feeding Studies with NK603 Corn
Although May 2014 will mark the 20th anniversary of the U.S. FDA’s approval for and Calgene’s market launch of the world’s first commercially available genetically engineered (GE) whole food, the Flavr SavrTM tomato, it’s amazing how relevant that GE tomato … Continue reading
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Tagged Bt corn, Bt pollen, Calgene, EPA, FDA, Flavr Savr tomato, Monarch butterfly larvae, Monsanto, NK603 corn, rat feeding studies, Seralini, StarLink corn, unintended effects, USDA
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Op Ed on Prop 37 in The San Jose Mercury News
Here’s an op-ed piece I wrote that was published in The San Jose Mercury News earlier this week: I’m a molecular geneticist who helped commercialize the world’s first genetically engineered whole food. I wholeheartedly support providing Californians with information about whether … Continue reading
Crop Genetic Engineering, Warts and All
This is a paper I wrote that was published by PBGworks October 26, 2012: Crop genetic engineering is a powerful technology that is helping scientists reveal how genes and genomes function. It could also be used to solve important global … Continue reading
Crop Genetic Engineering is a Mutagenic Process
In my last post I argued that the current system for regulating genetically engineered (GE) crops for commercialization in the United States is inadequate because it is possible to design GE plants in such a way that USDA, EPA or … Continue reading
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