{"id":28631,"date":"2015-09-18T07:24:23","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T05:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=28631"},"modified":"2015-09-16T16:14:30","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T14:14:30","slug":"244-reasons-why-gmos-are-safe-global-science-organizations-endorse-crop-biotech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/244-reasons-why-gmos-are-safe-global-science-organizations-endorse-crop-biotech\/","title":{"rendered":"244 reasons why GMOs are safe: Global science organizations endorse crop biotech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Currently there is a social and political controversy about the safety of foods produced from genetically modified (GM) crops, however,\u00a0in the scientific community there is no dispute or controversy regarding the safety of GM crops. To\u00a0date, more than\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.geneticliteracyproject.org\/2013\/10\/08\/with-2000-global-studies-confirming-safety-gm-foods-among-most-analyzed-subject-in-science\/\" target=\"_blank\">2000 scientific studies<\/a>\u00a0have assessed the safety of these crops in terms of human health and environmental impact. These studies together with several reviews performed on a case by case from regulatory agencies around the world, have enabled a solid and clear scientific consensus:\u00a0GM crops have no more\u00a0risk than those that have been developed by conventional breeding techniques.<\/p>\n<p>This document brings together the public statements of\u00a0organizations and scientific institutions that adhere to this consensus. I made an update based on this\u00a0document\u00a0from\u00a0ChileBio\u00a0that include\u00a040 official documents representing about 190 institutions.<\/p>\n<p>After categorizing the different institutions from\u00a0Africa (14), Asia (4), Europe (59), Latin America (8), North America (22), Oceania (7) and internationals (11), a total of 125 institutions was\u00a0obtained. If we add the 101 academies\u00a0and 27 scientific unions that signed the document of the International Council for Science (ICSU), we get a figure of 253 institutions.<\/p>\n<p>However, in\u00a0the current\u00a0121 national scientific institutions\u00a0that are members of ICSU, 13 already appear on the categorization by continents and these academies were\u00a0members of ICSU before the document was signed in 2003. If we subtract these 13, we get a\u00a0figure of 240 institutions.<\/p>\n<p>But the\u00a0European Academies Science Advisory Council (EASAC) is composed by\u00a029 members, and 25\u00a0already on our list. So we must add the 4 remaining institutions .<\/p>\n<p>In conclusion,\u00a0244 institutions and organizations recognize that GM crops are not riskier than those produced by conventional breeding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Currently there is a social and political controversy about the safety of foods produced from genetically modified (GM) crops, however,\u00a0in the scientific community there is no dispute or controversy regarding the safety of GM crops. To\u00a0date, more than\u00a02000 scientific studies\u00a0have assessed the safety of these crops in terms of human health and environmental impact. These [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[10837,14711,10838],"class_list":["post-28631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-chilebio","supplier-european-academies-science-advisory-council-easac","supplier-international-council-for-science-icsu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28631"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=28631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}