Can safely eat genetically modified foods? how to guarantee the safety of genetically modified organisms in agriculture?
Respondents: weichaoan – Vice Minister of MOA rigan — Inner Mongolia University Rector, academician of Chinese Academy of engineering, Vice President,
Transgenic technology for the benefit of mankind, it is also possible to humans, animals and plants, microorganisms and ecological environment of dangerous or potential risks
Reporter: now, many GM products into the lives of ordinary people. Ask us how to understand the transgenic technology?
Rigan: transgenic technology is the core of biotechnology, which breaking the natural hybridization between different species of barrier for gene transfer between species, new characters, rich in genetic resources, accelerate the breeding process, but also may have on humans, animals and plants, microorganisms and their environment is dangerous or potential risk to produce bio-safety issues.
Reporter: it seems that the development of transgenic technology without the Government's guidance. I ask that my Government's basic attitude of transgenic technology?
Weichaoan: biotechnology is the 21st century world economic development of the new engine, the Chinese Government attaches great importance to the development of agricultural biotechnology. The national medium-and long-term science and technology development planning platform for articulate biotechnology is supporting the development, leading the future of one of the leading-edge technology, and the cultivation of GMO varieties as a major project.
The Ministry of agriculture has always adhered to the "scientific planning, active in research, and promoting, strengthening the management" of agriculture GMO industry guidelines, according to national science and technology development planning and development of transgenic crops, as well as security evaluations, production applications, market demand, etc, focus, step-by-step study transgenic crops in China and its industrialization.
Reporter: now, individual countries have attached great importance to transgenic technology. So, my research on transgenic technology at the international level is what status?
Rigan: in recent years, China's GMO strides: the first is for a group of genetically modified crop varieties and new materials, mainly in the insect-resistant cotton, high oil resistance maize, rapeseed and anti sprouting wheat, etc. The second is vaccines and feed biological agents has become the industry, including genetic engineering, vaccines, diagnostic kits, new dietary protein, biological drugs, feed additives, etc. The third is the ongoing breakthrough technology research and development, access to the growth and development of rice genes, sterile male fertility Restorer gene, a new type of herbicide-resistance gene, gene, to create transgenic plant varieties provides genetic resources. It can be said that at present, China's agriculture GMO research and industrialization in developing countries is in the advanced level, genetic engineering, transgenic cotton research reached the international advanced level.
Weichaoan: Asahi, academician of the genetic engineering and genetically modified BT is GMO technology and security management two successful model. As of 2005, cumulative domestic BT has promoted more than 100 million acres, accounting for insect-resistant cotton acreage of 73%, creating social and economic benefits of 150 billion.
Transgenic technology itself is neutral. After the safety assessment of genetically modified organisms, for approval of genetically modified organisms can be assured that the use or consumption
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