Europe spends 100 million yuan to study the potential risks of genetically modified foods.

"These three studies address the questions raised in the Serralini study and provide a scientific basis for a two-year carcinogenic feeding trial in Rats using whole food/feed in Europe.
" 24, Zhejiang University School of Biological Systems Engineering and Food Science professor Shen Lirong told science and technology daily reporters.
, a paper on cancer-induced tumors from genetically modified crops was sealed by the university's professor at Caen University in France, three long-running European studies that refute his erroneous conclusions.
but the costs were enormous, with the three European studies costing a total of 15 million euros, or about 113 million yuan.
Seralini's research has been seen by people as a "heavy bomb" in gm foods that are unsafe and used repeatedly to attack GM technology.
September 2012, Serralini published a sensational study in Food and Chemical Toxicology, which said that rats fed with herbicide-resistant NK603 genetically modified corn had a significant increase in cancer-causing rates.
he called on scientists to conduct long-term genetically modified feeding studies of rats.
" The journal eventually withdrew its research, but with far-reaching consequences, and the reversal group continues to spread Thesalini's conclusions, sparking fears about the safety of GM food.
," Shen said.
since then, Europe has launched three studies, namely, the EU-funded "GMO Risk Assessment and Evidence Exchange" project (GRACE for 3 months and 1 year feeding trials) and the "G-TwYST" project (G-TwYST for three-month and two-year feeding trials), and the "GMO90 plus" project in France. shen Lirong,
, recently published the conclusions of the three studies show that the test of genetically modified corn varieties in the experimental animals did not cause any negative effects, did not find that there are potential risks of genetically modified foods, but also did not find that it has chronic toxicity and carcinogenicity-related toxicological effects.
the people who funded the three studies see it as resource-intensive and labor-intensive and not suitable for routine research.
But if it is a controversial scientific and technological issue, or if there is a polarizing view, this approach is an option to maintain social stability.
"European past too much to take into account the opposition of civil reversal forces, affecting the development of genetically modified breeding and industry.
" Shen Lirong believes that the purpose of these three studies is to educate the public, risk exchange, hoping to reverse the passive situation. Sun Yi, a researcher at the Biotechnology Research Center of Shanxi Academy of Agricultural Sciences,
, commented that the overall harm to this matter outweighs the benefits.
's aspect is that the false test is conducive to further turbidity, to positive audio-visual. The
disadvantage is that, from a scientific point of view, the necessity is questionable.
before the European authorities launched the three studies, from the test material, design to the results analysis, many of the paper's errors were clearly identified and withdrawn, that is, the results of the mainstream scientific and technological community has been found not to be credible.
in this case, the EU is still spending heavily on such research projects, which are a desperate attempt to quell its adverse social impacts, but the social costs are enormous.
While we admire the spirit of European scientists in pursuit of truth and the rigorous scientific attitude, we are also sad that we have to spend enormous social resources to repeat the false, because the money and human resources consumed are ultimately paid for by taxpayers.
hope that the fewer such incidents, the better, those who rely on rumors to reverse should be condemned by public opinion and the relevant laws.
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