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Risk UnderestimatedInterviews with nine scientists
on the subject ofgenetically modified plants
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Berlin political unit, Marienstrae 19-20, 10117 Berlin. E-mail [email protected]. Internet at www.greenpeace.de.
Basel; Katja Moch, ko-Institut, Freiburg; Christoph Then. Interviews by Florianne Koechlin. Scientific editing by Sue Mayer and Janet Cotter. Texts edited bypolitical unit, Marienstrae 19-20, 10117 Berlin. E-mail [email protected]. Internet at www.greenpeace.de. Authors Florianne Koechlin, Blauen-Institut,Published on the web by Greenpeace e.V., Groe Elbstrae 39, 22767 Hamburg, Germany. Tel. ++49 (0)40 30618 100. Editor responsible Christoph Then. Berlin
A ja Oeck and Markus Nitsch. Translation by John Saul. Cover design by Ulrike Hemme and Nicole Krohn. Photos by G Gilabert (2), A Kirchhof, all Greenpeace.n
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plants - for example:
(Professor Marcello Buiatti, Italy)
The products of genetic engineering today are still at the level of dinosaur
technology. We use genes which are foreign to a species, not knowing where they
are inserted or what else will change in the whole chain from gene to protein.
(Dr Cesare Gessler, Switzerland)
So I think that we should bear in mind that the study is far below the level of
sufficiency to be able to predict any toxicity or any unintended effect of a
plant. (Professor Gilles-Eric Seralini, France)
It would be nice if there was a greater humility and more experts would admit
the limits of their knowledge. (Dr Richard Firn, UK)
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Interviews with nine scientists about the risk from genetically manipulated
The human genome has approximately 30,000 so called coding genes and
"ambiguity - more proteins coded by a single gene - is very high.
these can code for more than 500,000 different proteins. Therefore, gene