A visit to Baku Laureate of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, a well-known American scientist Aziz Sanjar took part in the opening of a new laboratory for the safety of food safety at the Department of Food Safety Department of Azerbaijan State Economic University.
Well-known scientist in a conversation with Haqqin.Az expressed his point of view on the safety of genetically modified products.
“directly as a matter of gene modification of products We did not do, but I know many scientists who recommend consumption of GMO products. There are factors in which the consumption of GMOs is a real necessity,” says Sanjar. – For example, in the population of Southeast Asia – The Philippines, Indonesia and a number of other states arose large problems associated with the deficit in the food products of Vitamin A. The lack of this vitamin is very negatively affecting the health of people inhabiting the huge region. In search of solutions of this problem, scientists have introduced a gene in rice, which contributes to the development Vitamin A in the human body. Grade GMO rice with an increased content of betacarotine – vitamin A predecessor, due to golden color called “gold rice”.
Golden Rice has become the first agricultural culture that promotes a targeted genetically modified improvement in nutritional value. At the expense of GMO Rice, hundreds of millions of people received full nutrition and solved the problem of lack of vitamin A. In such cases, it is necessary to unambiguously support and encourage the consumption of genetically modified products, he said.