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Árpád János Pusztai (8 September 1930 – 17 December 2021 [1]) was a Hungarian-born British biochemist and nutritionist who spent 36 years at the Rowett Research Institute in Aberdeen, Scotland. He was a world expert on plant lectins, authoring 270 papers and three books on the subject.
The Pusztai affair is a controversy that began in 1998. The protein scientist Árpád Pusztai went public with the initial results of unpublished research he was conducting at the Rowett Institute in Aberdeen, Scotland, investigating the possible effects of genetically modified potatoes upon rats. Pusztai claimed that the genetically modified ...
Dec 23, 2021 · He was a world expert on plant lectins, authoring 270 papers and three books on the subject. In 1998, Dr. Pusztai publicly announced that the results of his research showed feeding genetically modified potatoes to rats had negative effects on their stomach lining and immune system.
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Dec 22, 2021 · ETC Group is sad to have learned of the passing of Dr Arpad Pusztai on 17th December this Year. Dr Pustzai was a much respected, highly published UK government food safety scientist originally from Hungary. In 1998 his research, which raised questions about the safety of Genetic Engineering in potatoes, caused a political storm, cost him his ...
Jan 13, 2022 · By Howard Vlieger. Árpád Janos Pusztai, PhD, one of the first scientists to raise concerns about the safety of genetically modified foods, died Dec 17, 2021, at home with his wife, Susan (Zsuzsa) Bardócz, at his side. He was 91. Pusztai was born Sept 8, 1930, in Budapest, Hungary. He was a student of the high school Obudai Arpad Gimnazium.
May 5, 1999 · Editor —In his clinical review on genetically modified foods Jones implies that Pusztai had tested only the effects of potato spiked with concanavalin A (a lectin) at the Rowett Institute. 1 The initial dissemination of this incorrect information followed by the inappropriate suspension of Pusztai and the suspicion of fraud implied by instituting an audit according to Medical Research ...
Feb 12, 1999 · Twenty-two prominent scientists have signed a public statement in support of suspended food scientist Dr Arpad Pusztai, who lost his job last year for warning the British public of possible...
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