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Dec 19, 2012 · Tsourgiannis et al. conducted a study aimed to identify the factors that affect consumers purchasing behaviour towards food products that are free from GMO (GM Free) in a European region and more precisely in the Prefecture of Drama-Kavala-Xanthi. Field interviews conducted in a random selected sample consisted of 337 consumers in the cities of ...
Feb 22, 2013 · Previously, the longest study had lasted 240 days, says Michael Hansen, senior scientist at Consumers Union and an expert on GMO research. Industry-funded studies typically last just 90 days. The ...
Jul 29, 2019 · China may one day need CRISPR-modified plants to provide enough food for its massive population, notes rice researcher Li Jiayang, former president of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences in Beijing and vice minister of agriculture. "We have to feed 1.4 billion people with very limited natural resources," says Li, who works at the same ...
Apr 19, 2023 · Three federal agencies within the U.S. government work together to regulate most GMOs. “GMO” (genetically modified organism) has become the common term consumers and popular media use to ...
Dec 5, 2019 · The field trials follow successful lab experiments to modify Maris Piper potatoes with late blight resistance genes from wild relatives of potato called Solanum americanum and Solanum venturii. To ...
Aug 18, 2022 · By Raymond Zhong and Clare Toeniskoetter. Aug. 18, 2022. For decades, scientists have pursued a tantalizing possibility for bolstering food supplies and easing hunger for the world’s poorest ...
Jul 2, 2021 · The remaining 25% to 30% of the state’s spuds, which still add up to more than 60 million pounds of potatoes, are grown for the fresh market and can be found at grocery stores across the Eastern U.S. and into Canada. North Carolina-grown fresh market potatoes — or “table potatoes” — are lumped into three main categories: red potatoes ...
