ANFS102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Pesticide Resistance, Carbon Footprint, Allergen
16 May 2018
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• GE Crops are used mostly for Animal Feed
• Decades of research support safety of biotechnology
o numerous studies conducted over the past three decades have supported the
safety of current food produced with biotechnology
• Government agencies
o FDA- risk assessment of plants with pesticide resistance
• Research
o Mistakes made in GE research
o Risks of food allergies
o Cat take a gee fro a allerge food ad put ito a food that people are’t
allergic to
• Top 8 Major allergens
o Eggs
o Fish
o Milk
o Peanuts
o Shellfish
o Soy
o Tree nuts
o Wheats
▪ Critical that you do’t ove these foods ito others
• Labeling of GE foods
o No special lables for GE foods
o Only need to disclose material change
▪ If an issues exists regarding how a food is used or consequences of its use
o Not originally labeled because there is no change in the organism
• Benefits of GE
o Help natural defense of the plant, enhance it
o Results in hardier plants and increased yields
o Pesticide reduction
o Carbon footprint reduction
• Potential Food products
o Lower lactose milk
o Protect against moldy corn
o Beginning to develop:
• What about the technology being used?
o CRISPR/CAS9
▪ Cuts DNA and removes the virus, can cut any DNA sequence to remove
parts of it
▪ Repair process is error prone
▪ Target many genes at once
o Being used to edit genes in foods
▪ Do not have to label these products at GMO
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