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Genetically Modified Food: Challenges, Benefits and Concerns

Products from genetically modified organisms are becoming more and more a part of our lives. On the other hand, it takes time before each new technology is accepted. For crop biotechnology, key factors hindering the acceptance are public’ s limited understanding of modern agricultural practices and the science involved in biotechnology. Food, a personal and emotional topic, combined with misunderstanding of biotechnology, sensationalized media coverage, and complex ethical and social matters have composited to generate fear in consumers. Genome sequencing, and analysis using new tools, allowing for very high throughput analysis of genes and gene expression patterns, is accelerating the discovery of genes with possible nutrition, and agriculture utilities. Over the past 25 years, the development of genetic engineering techniques has allowed the development of crops containing specific single gene transfers. These are testable, controllable, and predictable changes, grounded on scientific principle. Genetically engineered crops undergo extensive testing of safety, composition, agronomic traits, and environmental effects prior to introduction into the marketplace.

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