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Vitamin A: Natural sources vs "Golden" Rice

Publication | February 1, 2001 at 0:00

Golden Rice

Golden Rice

Background | March 1, 2013 at 15:00

The so-called 'Golden' rice marketed by the biotech industry is a rice variety genetically engineered (GE) to produce pro-vitamin A. Its proponents say this GE rice could solve the problems of Vitamin A deficiency (which can lead to blindness) in...

Golden rice's lack of lustre

Golden rice's lack of lustre

Publication | November 9, 2010 at 2:00

‘Golden’ rice has been in development for almost 20 years and has still not made any impact on the prevalence of VAD (vitamin A deficiency). Not only has it failed to have any impact on VAD while using money and resources that could have been...

Chinese children used in US-backed GE food trial

Chinese children used in US-backed GE food trial

Blog entry by Monica Tan | August 31, 2012 31 comments

How would you feel if I told you that a group of scientists had come to the United States, and fed a group of 24 children aged between six and eight years of age a potentially dangerous product that had yet to be fully characterized?

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