This news has caught my attention. We recently reviewed the news of a new transgenic rice to reduce diarrhea with good results.
The rice in question was tested in 140 breast children belonging to a Hospital in Ecuador. The investigation of the North American pharmaceutical company Ventria Bioscience consisted in giving a liquid solution to the small ones in which a type of transgenic rice, modified with human genes, was included as a treatment for acute diarrhea.
Given this experiment, Ecuadorian NGOs have expressed their rejection of such research, because it should not have been used in breast children to test a transgenic food which has not been approved anywhere in the world. In this regard, Javier Verástegui, head of the policy office of the National Council of Science and Technology (Concytec), reminded the local press that in Peru there is no regulation for the use of transgenics in humans. "They cannot be commercialized and less used in people, because it is not yet regulated," he said.
The investigation has caused great controversy in southern countries about the abuse of pharmaceutical companies to use people from developing countries to experiment with them. Reading the news I began to think that some of the truth is Fernando Meirelles' movie The Gardener Faithful.
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