Most supermarkets sell off the papaya is no Camera trainee newspaper reporter Wenqing Jiang
summer, papaya is often used to soup into a food or raw fruit, papaya stew Xueha is a lot of love to share beauty-conscious women. Recently, some people call rebellion, said the supermarket fruit shelf affixed to the emergence of a whispered: Do we often eat is genetically modified papaya ordinary foods? GM foods will harm you human? With the public these questions, this reporter conducted a thorough investigation and interviews with the introduction of improved varieties of crops in Shenzhen City Center experts.
. The reporters found that, in addition to King Wal-Mart sold a papaya imported from the Philippines marked
reporter saw, affixed with GM
handsome,
King Wal-Mart's sales staff Xiao Yang told reporters: you need to continue to purchase common papaya. I heard that papaya has Lok Fu supermarket to buy food every day to Aunt Lee told reporters: the problem. Papaya's Wal-Mart in King, this reporter encountered are buying marked Ms Chow said she has some understanding of genetically modified foods, the scientific community that the current GM foods are harmful or not is inconclusive, but to be safe, her selection of foods to children will be very careful,
tory burch wedge, if the same type of food labeled or
companies deliberately concealed
, so that consumers understand the nature of the case of food purchase food, to protect consumers right to know. But now most companies have chosen to hide or silence, which allow consumers are helpless.
the one hand, Since there are sales of Contrast to this delicate, Shenzhen City, the introduction of improved varieties of crops, director Xiang-Yang Zhou believes that this is mainly because consumers know enough about genetically modified foods. directory and identity management for the sale of agricultural genetically modified organisms should be identified; not identified and not identified in accordance with the provisions shall not be imported or sold. Currently,
tory burch flip flop, the food included in the directory, including soybeans, soybean oil, corn, rape seed, rapeseed, cotton seed, fresh tomato, tomato sauce, and papaya and other fruits not included in the directory, so businesses are not against the law not to mark the .
However, Xiang-Yang Zhou believes that in order to protect the consumer's right to know and to choose, businesses should make product information more open, more transparent, so that consumers fully understand the premise of product information to make a choice.
genetically modified food is not terrible
reporters in the online search found that in the beginning of this year, South China Agricultural University, Professor Li Huaping said in a seminar, five in Guangdong market Jiucheng papaya are An organization has on 2 March 2009, in Shenzhen, China Resources Vanguard,
tory burch flip flops, and Wal-Mart to buy papaya samples for testing, found that the supermarkets are selling homemade papaya are
the Shenzhen market, in the end the number of transgenic papaya is it? Xiang-Yang Zhou told reporters in recent years, Shenzhen City Centre has been the introduction of crop varieties genetically modified food products of Shenzhen to track status of their staff will sample different food from time to time to market for GMO detection. According to the test, the Shenzhen market, indeed tested positive for genetically modified papaya, but they did not conduct a comprehensive sampling, so bad in the end to determine the number of Shenzhen, is a genetically modified papaya.
Xiang-Yang Zhou pointed out that genetically modified food is not terrible, in a sense,
tory burch totes, genetically modified foods in the microbial toxins, pesticide residues has become more secure, more nutritious for consumers, more healthy choices. GM foods have as many insects, the advantages of anti-virus, in the planting process, can reduce the use of chemist drugs, thus greatly reducing the amount of pesticide residues in products.
GM GM foods are not harmful, depending on what gene transfer, or gene to what food there. At present, the GM controversy centers around the safety, that is, whether on human health,
tory burch shoes, the ecological balance of a negative impact on the environment. However, there is no clear evidence that GM food is unsafe.
for genetically modified food, there are two camps in the world is very different attitude, one European Union, they very strict control of genetically modified foods; Second, the United States, genetically modified foods they hold more open attitude, but the current attitude of the two camps are the transformation: the European Union on release of genetically modified food slowly, and they have accepted genetically modified potatoes, corn; while the United States of biotechnology has brought new problems began to give more take notice.
Xiang-Yang Zhou said that in order to ensure the safety of consumers, government regulation of GM foods must keep pace with the detection of all GM foods must undergo a series of test and management procedures to ensure that before in the food market find the problem. GM foods are listed, government departments, experts have the power to track research and analysis, and found the problem.
Related links:
GM - the use of scientific methods to extract from a biological need to genes transferred into another organism so that it and other reorganization of biological genes, resulting in a specific shape with good genetic material. Genetically engineered plants and animals can change the character, and cultivate new varieties. Other organisms can also be fostered by the need of human biological products, for medicine, food and so on.
genetically modified food - using molecular biology techniques, gene transfer of certain organisms to other species, the genetic material modified organisms, so in character, nutritional quality, consumer quality of the human objectives need to change to genetically modified organisms for direct food or as raw materials for food processing and production is genetically modified food.