A British newspaper is reporting clinical links between genetically modified (GM) foods and cancer.
A weekend article in the Independent cites a Russian study affirming the work of Árpád Pusztai. Pusztai is a Hungarian-born protein scientist who in 1998 published an article in The Lancet medical journal raising questions about GM food safety. He detailed genetic damage observed in the digestive tracts of rats fed a diet of genetically modified potatoes. It concluded that the abnormalities were "mainly due to the expression of the GNA transgene in the potato."
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