Food First su inquinamento genetico

["AlessandroGimona"<agimona@libero.it>]

Cari tutti,
segnalo il rapporto "ANATOMY OF A 'GENE SPILL' DO WE REALLY NEED 
GENETICALLY ENGINEERED FOOD?"
disponibile nel sito di 'Food First'

il rapporto tratta dell'inquinamento genetico.




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spero interessi,
Saluti
Alessandro Gimona

ANATOMY OF A 'GENE SPILL' DO WE REALLY NEED GENETICALLY ENGINEERED FOOD?
         November 1, 2000
         from a press release
         Full text of the report available at:
         http://www.foodfirst.org/pubs/backgrdrs/2000/f00v6n4.html
         (Oakland, CA)-The scandal surrounding the genetically 
engineered (GE)
         StarLink corn-a variety not approved for human 
consumption-first found in
         Taco Bell taco shells, is symptomatic of larger problems, 
according to Food
         First's latest Backgrounder: Anatomy of a Gene Spill: Do we 
Really Need
         Genetically Engineered Food? The report issued by the Institute 
for Food and
         Development Policy, also know as 'Food First,' tackles the 
thorny issues of
         corporate concentration and collusion in this recent 'gene 
spill,' the
         difficulties of keeping GE foods from the human food supply, 
and the
         implications of gene spills for human health and the 
environment.
         "Unfortunately, gene spills are not as easy to contain as oil 
spills," says
         Dr. Peter Rosset, the author of the report and Co-Director of 
Food First.
         "You can't just throw a boom around them. Once genes are taken 
out of the
         laboratory, they can move from plant to plant by natural 
pollination,
         winding up in genomes in which they have never been tested and 
where they
         may have unpredictable effects."
Alessandro Gimona
agimona@libero.it