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- Title
Gag on food scientist is lifted as gene modification row hots up...
- Authors
Masood, Ehsan
- Abstract
Reports on the lifting of a ban by the Rowett Research Institute in Aberdeen, Scotland which forbade its scientist Arpad Pusztai from speaking to the press. Its bid to dampen allegations that it had tried to suppress data indicating potential health risks in genetically modified food; His conclusion that when rats were fed with potatoes genetically modified to produce lectin they suffered retarded growth, depressed immune systems and reduced body weight; Comments of the institute on Pusztai's data. INSET: ...and Blair resists demands for a moratorium.
- Subjects
SCOTLAND; ABERDEEN (Scotland); RESEARCH institutes; PUSZTAI, Arpad, 1930-2021; TRANSGENIC plants; HEALTH
- Publication
Nature, 1999, Vol 397, Issue 6720, p547
- ISSN
0028-0836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/17431