Genetically Altered Foods
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It is quite evident that as technology advances m the scientific sense, we as
Americans are becoming more interested. One of the conflicts that have raised
concern here lately is that on . By no surprise, one of
the major questions of many is whether or not these foods are safe. As altered
foods co ....
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.... resistance of cslve use
or such herbicides (Nature 559). "
A lot of concern has come from one certain crop and that is maize, which was
altered to an extent. The development was done by a company known to be Swiss,
called "Ciba-Geiby". That which was debated dealt with the Advisory Committee
on Novel Foods and Processes (ACNFP) stating that "A gene resistant to the
antibiotic ampicillin used in an early stage of the developmental process, could
theoretically be passed to man via bacteria lod ....
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