GM Foods Impacts

Genetically Modified Foods or GM foods has several good points and several bad points. Some impacts of GM foods are noted here.

• Disease resistance capability increased
• Production of meat, milk, eggs etc.increased Improves animal health
• Productivity capability increased

• Contains huge amount of nutrition like vitamins and minerals
• GM foods are more tasty
• Pest resistance capability increased
• Crop maturation time is reduced Increased herbicide tolerance
• Cold tolerance capability increased
• New crops with improved quality can be produced easily

• Trees which are about to vanished, can restored
• Sometimes helpful to conserve soil, water and energy

• Famine problem can be solved for increase population

• Organisms are affected with unknown causes
• Protection of pesticides is hampered
• Non-targeted species are also affected and become a threaten to targeted species

Rich country is being dependent on GM foods day by day

Labeling, both for GM and non-GM crops, produces confusion to recognize separately

• Allergens is great threaten for GM foods
• Several unknown effects are arise to human
• Human is affected day by day

The safety assessment of GM foods generally investigates:

1. direct health effects (toxicity),
2. tendencies to provoke allergic reaction (allergenicity);
3. specific components thought to have nutritional or toxic properties;
4. the stability of the inserted gene;
5. nutritional effects associated with genetic modification; and
6. any unintended effects which could result from the gene insertion.

[This part is taken form "www.who.int"]