Experimental GM rice in China

Greenpeace East Asia - Greenpeace East Asia has accused it, an American-backed study tested rice modified Golden Rice on 24 Chinese children. However, China denied this allegation.

According to the allegations, the above Chinese children aged 6-8 years old, living in Hengyang City, Hunan Province, China have been tested to eat 60 grams of genetically modified golden grain rice daily. , within 3 weeks.

The results of this study were published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, in which the team said that the number of children eating genetically modified golden rice was as effective as taking vitamin A.

According to Greenpeace East Asia, testing on danger has not been tested before in animals and contrary to the decision of the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture to cancel the project of testing transgenic yellow rice grain due to medical errors. and ethics in 2008.

The transgenic golden grain rice has been grown and tested
Chinese children, despite being banned four years ago?

Greenpeace East Asia has called on the Chinese government to continue its decision in 2008 and to open an investigation into the program of transgenic yellow rice grain testing, and to provide legal and medical support for 24 Children are said to have been tested.

However, state officials in Hunan Province, China, rejected the allegations of Greenpeace East Asia. The Hengyang city spokesman said that the Chinese government has set up a team to investigate the genetically modified yellow grain rice project but no project has been implemented in Hunan.

In fact, that study is transforming vegetable carotene into vitamin A in children's bodies. The study was commissioned by Hunan Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 2008, selecting 68 elementary students in Hengyang and Hunan to experiment, It has nothing to do with genetically modified rice or other genetically modified foods tested on children.

CDC officials in Hunan also added that when the experiment was completed, the localities purchased the research results. All research results were also submitted to CDC China immediately after the end. This study also does not have any US support.

It is known that the transgenic golden grain rice program was initiated by a professor at Tufts University in Massachussetts. Genetically engineered GM yellow rice produces a lot of beta-carotene, an important substance that makes vitamin A. The study of this rice variety aims to create a food that will overcome vitamin A deficiency, one. Among the causes of killing every year, about 670 thousand children under 5 years old.