From The February 2001 Issue of Nutrition Science News

GMOs Revered and Reviled

ORLANDO, Fla.—"From all the research that's been done and all the information we have to date, genetically altered foods appear to be quite safe," says Roy Altman, M.D., a committee member on the American Medical Association's (AMA) Council on Scientific Affairs.

Altman presented his committee's report on genetically modified organisms (GMOs) during the semiannual AMA meeting held here last December. He said that GMOs have "the potential to increase the production of food and improve the efficiency of production."

Ironically, that same week, farmers from across the United States brought a class-action lawsuit against Aventis CropScience, the company responsible for StarLink corn, which has not been approved for human consumption but found its way into yellow-corn food products. The cross-pollinating GE corn has created a recall of millions of food products and a crisis in the nation's grain-handling system.