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Vargas Colin Zaida Zuzel
Eduviguez de los Santos Cristian Ysandro
Morales Casquera Aldo
Gonzales Alvares Areli Gisselle
European Union to make cheese. It has some bureaucratic problems, but it is not a source of ecological
problems, nor does it pose any risk to the consumer.
3. Transgenic animals that secrete a human protein in their milk or have a lower lactose content: These
are not yet commercially available, so there is not really much information about it.
It is worth mentioning that of these three cases no organism is released to the environment. A cow is not an
organism that can "pollinate" without control to anybody, whereas in the other cases only pure substances
obtained are commercialized.
Not only ecological aspects are considered as the transfer of resistance genes, but also aspects related to
consumer safety, which are easy to examine
Points in favor of transgenic foods
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Experts agree that there is no reason to think that transgenic foods are harmful to health. Many scholars
agree that "the controversy over the safety of transgenics is part of fiction. Today there are around 40
million hectares of genetically modified food and there is no accusation. " Also, it has been commented
that these do not offer any danger at all and that the modified vegetables "come" from other "normal"
vegetables, so do not pose any risk, so their consumption is completely harmless.
Transgenic foods are constantly being checked and analyzed, going through very rigorous and
exhaustive processes, even superior to those that are subject to common foods. "The demands of
food safety that are imposed on any transgenic food before its approval are really exhaustive," says
CSIC's former president, César Nombela
Data revealed by the US Department of Agriculture have revealed that during the year 2000 there
were more than one billion transgenic plants in the soil, which did not present alterations that
compromised the environment or the health of its inhabitants
Some isolated experiments with negative health outcomes have been reported, "where the scientific
community has judged them as unorthodox, even though they have been published in
internationally recognized scientific journals. Why? Because these isolated experiments had
methodological flaws, according to several colleagues with great prestige
A guide document of the Codex Alimentarius Commission was issued in the United States on the
issue of which they have made more allergic persons, in which it was compulsory to test for IgE
(allergen-linked immunoglobulin) in each case. one of the new products. Also, it was demanded to
look in the databases of proteins in case the new proteins are similar to some already known
allergen. There are several public and private agencies around the world that exercise this type of
control over modified foods.
QUESTIONNAIRE
What is a transgenic food?
Transgenic foods are those that include in their composition some ingredient that comes from an organism
that has been incorporated by genetic techniques, a gene of another species.
Why were transgenic foods created?
Proponents of this practice believe that genetic modification is intended to achieve much more resistant
foods with better nutritional qualities that are more beneficial to humans.
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COLEGIO DE ESTUDIOS CIENTÍFICOS Y TECNOLÓGICOS DEL ESTADO DE MEXICO
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