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2007-02-08 | permalink
‘Food contaminated with GE organisms found in Kuwait’; Effects will be irreversible: Greenpeace activists
Greenpeace activists Arnaud Apoteker and Andi Freimueller, speaking at a conference Wednesday at Kuwait Journalists Association (KJA), said food contaminated with genetically engineered (GE) organisms is found in Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. They opined that awareness on GE food is low in the region “and is a new topic here.” Explaining about Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO), Apoteker, who is the coordinator of the GMO campaign in Europe, said “they are living organisms created in the laboratories through the transfer of genes from one species to another. There are new varieties of plants created through controlled mutations with animal or human genes.” A particular variety of maize used by pharmaceutical companies has human genes in it, he added. “This variety, fortunately, has not been commercialized.”
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2007-02-08 | permalink
‘Food contaminated with GE organisms found in Kuwait’; Effects will be irreversible: Greenpeace activists
Greenpeace activists Arnaud Apoteker and Andi Freimueller, speaking at a conference Wednesday at Kuwait Journalists Association (KJA), said food contaminated with genetically engineered (GE) organisms is found in Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. They opined that awareness on GE food is low in the region “and is a new topic here.” Explaining about Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO), Apoteker, who is the coordinator of the GMO campaign in Europe, said “they are living organisms created in the laboratories through the transfer of genes from one species to another. There are new varieties of plants created through controlled mutations with animal or human genes.” A particular variety of maize used by pharmaceutical companies has human genes in it, he added. “This variety, fortunately, has not been commercialized.”
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