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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 The protein scientist Árpád Pusztai went public with the initial results of unpublished research he was conducting at the Rowett Institute in Aberdeen, Scotland, investigating the possible effects of genetically modified potatoes upon rats.
In 1995, Pusztai began research on genetically modified potatoes containing the GNA lectin gene from the snowdrop plant. His research team fed raw and cooked genetically modified potatoes to rats, using Desiree Red potatoes as controls.
Dec 23, 2021 · His accurate preliminary research led to the first joint attack by the UK and U.S. governments on an independent scientist on the GMO issue and involved a global polictical and scientific smear campaign, the likes of which have now been repeated again and again on other independent scientists who have warned of the dangers of GMOs and their ...
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Jan 13, 2022 · Remembering Árpád Janos Pusztai, scientist who risked career to question safety of GMOs. Published: 13 January 2022. Árpád Janos Pusztai, PhD, one of the first scientists to raise concerns about the safety of genetically modified foods, died Dec 17, 2021, at the age of 91. By Howard Vlieger.
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 ...
- Jonathan M Rhodes
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Oct 22, 1999 · Now, part of the controversial study by protein biochemist Arpad Pusztai has finally made it into the pages of The Lancet—only to drag the prestigious journal down into the trenches of the British war over genetically modified food.
News that one of the world’s leading medical journals, The Lancet, planned to publish some of the results on the toxic effects of genetically modified potatoes on rats from Arpad Pusztai,...
