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Old 21-05-2009, 01:31 AM posted to uk.legal,uk.politics.misc,uk.rec.gardening
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Default Doctors Warn: Avoid GM Food.

David wrote:



Worst finding of all—GMOs remain inside of us:

The only published human feeding study revealed what may be the most
dangerous problem from GM foods. The gene inserted into GM soy transfers
into the DNA of bacteria living inside our intestines and continues to
function.[26]


It's hard to tell what's relevant since your reference list only goes to
[4]; but here is the abstract from ref [26] of the Jeffry M Smith paper
"Doctors Warn: Avoid Genetically Modified Food"

Ref
http://www.agbios.com/docroot/articles/06-272-005.pdf

NB the final sentence of the abstract
"we conclude that gene transfer did not occur during the feeding
experiment."


"The inclusion of genetically modified (GM) plants in the human diet has
raised concerns about the possible transfer of transgenes from GM plants
to intestinal microflora and enterocytes. The persistence in the human
gut of DNA from dietary GM plants is unknown. Here we study the survival
of the transgene epsps from GM soya in the small intestine of human
ileostomists (i.e., individuals in which the terminal ileum is resected
and digesta are diverted from the body via a stoma to a colostomy bag).
The amount of transgene that survived passage through the small bowel
varied among individuals, with a maximum of 3.7% recovered at the stoma
of one individual. The transgene did not survive passage through the
intact gastrointestinal tract of human subjects fed GM soya. Three of
seven ileostomists showed evidence of low-frequency gene transfer from
GM soya to the microflora of the small bowel before their involvement in
these experiments. As this low level of epsps in the intestinal
microflora did not increase after consumption of the meal containing GM
soya, we conclude that gene transfer did not occur during the feeding
experiment."

At this point,I should probably admit that I am personally a GM sceptic
- but I am even more an anti 'bad science' adherent. Bring on some good
science and I'll join your campaign.