In advanced tests not normally part of GM crop evaluations, protein produced by GM peas generated a dangerous immune response in mice.
That “same” protein, when produced naturally in beans, had no effect.
The GM peas produced a subtle, hard-to-detect difference in the way sugar molecules attached to the protein, which likely caused the problem.
The response in mice suggested that the GM peas could provoke inflammatory or allergic reactions in humans; commercialization of the peas was therefore cancelled.
This type of subtle but dangerous change in the GM protein would rarely, if ever, be detected in the safety assessments typically used to approve GM crops.
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Check out the Le Monde research.
You may want to include it in future
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Comments by Jeffrey M. Smith
Date: May 11, 2007
Thank you for this update, which we will be sure to include in the newer editions of Genetic Roulette. Le Monde wrote an article about this new research, which is posted here: http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/
article_4790.cfm.
