Thursday, July 25, 2013

Soy-based lunch kills 22 children in India: Have GMOs and pesticides become instant killers?

GMOs not needed: Brazil scientists developing lifesaving superfoods through traditional plant breeding methods
7/22/2013

http://q.gs/4b0Tv

New technology capable of better detecting GMOs in food, animal feed and seeds
7/21/2013
http://q.gs/4a520
Droplet Digital PCR, or ddPCR, works to improve GMO screening efforts in the more than 60 countries around the world that now require GMO labeling.

And ddPCR appears to be not only more accurate than existing technologies, but also more cost effective.

Soy-based lunch kills 22 children in India: Have GMOs and pesticides become instant killers?
7/20/2013
http://q.gs/4ZhdS
At least 22 children in India have died as a result of eating soy-based school lunches served to them in the country's Bihar state, according to new reports. The tainted lunches, which were loaded with genetically-modified (GM) soybeans and pesticide chemical residues, were given to the student victims as part of a U.K.-based government meal program similar to the one currently being implemented in the U.S. by Michelle Obama for American public schoolchildren.