The food and environmental safety of Bt crops

MS Koch, JM Ward, SL Levine, JA Baum… - Frontiers in plant …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) microbial pesticides have a 50-year history of safety in agriculture.
Cry proteins are among the active insecticidal ingredients in these pesticides, and genes …

Prevalence and impacts of genetically engineered feedstuffs on livestock populations

AL Van Eenennaam, AE Young - Journal of Animal Science, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Globally, food-producing animals consume 70 to 90% of genetically engineered (GE) crop
biomass. This review briefly summarizes the scientific literature on performance and health …

Scientific Opinion on development needs for the allergenicity and protein safety assessment of food and feed products derived from biotechnology

EFSA Panel on Genetically Modified Organisms … - EFSA …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract This Scientific Opinion addresses the formulation of specific development needs,
including research requirements for allergenicity assessment and protein safety, in general …

Impact on environment, ecosystem, diversity and health from culturing and using GMOs as feed and food

AM Tsatsakis, MA Nawaz, VA Tutelyan… - Food and Chemical …, 2017 - Elsevier
Modern agriculture provides the potential for sustainable feeding of the world's increasing
population. Up to the present moment, genetically modified (GM) products have enabled …

[PDF][PDF] A long-term toxicology study on pigs fed a combined genetically modified (GM) soy and GM maize diet.

JA Carman, HR Vlieger, LJ Ver Steeg, VE Sneller… - 2013 - organic-systems.org
A significant number of genetically modified (GM) crops have been approved to enter human
food and animal feed since 1996, including crops containing several GM genes' stacked'into …

Evaluation of adverse effects/events of genetically modified food consumption: a systematic review of animal and human studies

C Shen, XC Yin, BY Jiao, J Li, P Jia, XW Zhang… - Environmental Sciences …, 2022 - Springer
Objective A systematic review of animal and human studies was conducted on genetically
modified (GM) food consumption to assess its safety in terms of adverse effects/events to …

Assessment of GE food safety using '-omics' techniques and long-term animal feeding studies

AE Ricroch - New biotechnology, 2013 - Elsevier
Despite the fact that a thorough, lengthy and costly evaluation of genetically engineered
(GE) crop plants (including compositional analysis and toxicological tests) is imposed before …

Health effects of feeding genetically modified (GM) crops to livestock animals: A review

CJ De Vos, M Swanenburg - Food and Chemical Toxicology, 2018 - Elsevier
A large share of genetically modified (GM) crops grown worldwide is processed into
livestock feed. Feed safety of GM crops is primarily based on compositional equivalence …

Fate of transgenic DNA from orally administered Bt MON810 maize and effects on immune response and growth in pigs

MC Walsh, SG Buzoianu, GE Gardiner, MC Rea… - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
We assessed the effect of short-term feeding of genetically modified (GM: Bt MON810) maize
on immune responses and growth in weanling pigs and determined the fate of the …

Fecal microbiota transplantation in gestating sows and neonatal offspring alters lifetime intestinal microbiota and growth in offspring

UM McCormack, T Curião, T Wilkinson… - …, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
Previous studies suggest a link between intestinal microbiota and porcine feed efficiency
(FE). Therefore, we investigated whether fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) in sows …