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Article: COMING SOON... DESIGNER FOOD ATADINING TABLE NEAR YOU.
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- Mail Today (New Delhi, India)
- Article date:
- November 5, 2009
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Despite fears about their economic and health effects, India is set to allow GM foods to flood the market
YOUR favourite food, vegetable or fruit, may soon come with genes inserted from bacteria, parasites or even scorpion. And the first such geneticallymodified (GM) food to reach your dining table would be brinjal or eggplant. The recent Genetic Engineering Approval Committee (GEAC)'s approval of Bt brinjal marks a new trend in India.
This is the first genetically-modified (GM) food item that will be cultivated and consumed on a large scale in the country, pending final approval from the government. This could open up the floodgates for GM foods of all ...