ANT214H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Postmarketing Surveillance, Glyphosate, Herbicide
Document Summary
Gm crops and plant domestication - not the same thing. Genetic engineering vastly expands range of traits and enables breeders to import dna from anywhere is the biosphere. Gmos banned in europe - critique of modern agriculture and practice. National academy of science have reviewed the safety of genetic aspects behind gm crops - no hazard but genetic transformation has potential to produce unanticipated toxins that might alter nutritional quality of food. Has potential to produce unanticipated toxins and allergens - still doing tests on this but there is good evidence so far. There is a new risk-assessment tool and post-market surveillance - we need to keep an eye on this. Big problem is that herbicide resistance is main technology used. Herbicide resistance = genetically engineered tolerance to glyphosate. Herbicide used on gm crops called roundup crops which were created in the. Increase amounts and number of chemical herbicides applied to gm crops.
