China Commercial Plantation of transgenic rice23, safety assessment

The state of GMO Safety Committee ( hereinafter referred to as "the Committee on Biosafety" ) today to 25 in Beijing held a conference on transgenic rice in China, the commercial cultivation of safety assessment. The evaluation results will be the final approval to the Ministry of agriculture produces crucial effect.

It is reported, this year there are four kinds of transgenic rice varieties were submitted to the Ministry of agriculture for commercial production, they were the three of insect-resistant transgenic rice variety and a bacterial blight resistance gene in rice varieties.

For China, with a population of around1300000000, with rice as the staple food of the country, the promotion of transgenic rice has important significance. However, transgenic technology produces unintended consequences on health may bring huge risk, determines the policy and must be wary of.

It is understood, for the commercial production of transgenic CpTI rice into the CpTI gene, and Australia transgenic pea into genetically similar, so a non-governmental organization says its safety is especially worth worrying about.

Australian Journal of agricultural and food chemistry,""16 published research articles show, by feeding the Australia transgenic pea mouse lung inflammation. Recently, Australia has stopped it has made more than10year research project.

" Australia transgenic pea on emergency brake, also reminds me of China Ministry of agriculture in transgenic rice commercial approval process should be cautious." A non-governmental organization of food and agriculture project group program director Ma Tianjie says," rice is about 1300000000people three meals a day. In the safety of transgenic biology has enormous dispute cases, not worth our staple to adventure."

Ma Tianjie points out at the same time, as the first half of this year Hubei illegal genetically modified rice planting events there are still repercussions., Ministry of agriculture in recent approval of any kind of commercial cultivation of genetically modified rice, will open a bad precedent, encouraged some scientific research units and individuals illegally released transgenic seed to make" an established fact", forcing the government to approve planting. " This will seriously damage China's GMO Safety Management seriously."

State Environmental Protection Administration of the Nanjing Environmental Science Research Institute researcher Xue Dayuan said, the world is not the commercial cultivation of transgenic rice precedent, although the United States has approved two kinds of medicinal the commercialization of GM rice planting, but it has not yet been put into practice.

Xue Dayuan is our country participates in international" Protocol" drafting and negotiating the main one of the scientists, he said, though" Protocol" for commercial cultivation of transgenic rice have no special provisions for genetically modified organisms, but its international transfer restriction will affect China's rice exports.