contrarys of genetically engineered...

contrarys of genetically engineered (GE) subsistences have long warned that bacteria living in the human intestinal tract might absorb genetic material--DNA--from gene-modified foods

Many GE craws have antibiotic-resistant genes inserted in them, and GE repugnants fear that if we ingest material from these gene we may-lose the ability to fight infections and plane become antibiotic-resistant ourselves.

Biotech engineers have gibeed at the idea, saying the modified genetic material doesn't remain in the corpse But a new study commissioned by means of the British government and published in July 2002 by dint of the Food Standards Agency says otherwise.

Harry Gilbert, PhD and other .researchers at the University of Newcastle in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, gave seven proffers a single meal--a burger and a milkshake, each containing GE soy Later, researchers plant bacteria containing one of the gene from the soy in the intestines of three of the seven volunteers--exactly what GE opposings had feared. The risk of antibiotic-resistant gene from GE aliments taking up residence in the human intestine is no longer theoretical. Activists say the accrues of the GE soy proofs vindicate their warnings.

"We've said time and time again that there's a risk of this happening. Now, researchers have experimented for antibiotic-resistant bacteria just one time and they've collected evidence that supports our claim," says Adrian Bebb, GE-oppos subsistence campaigner for Friends of the Earth, an environmental organization based in London. "We believe that genetically engineered breads containing antibiotic-resistant genes should be withdrawn from the market."

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