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People's Daily Online)
15:41, September 06, 2012
A U.S. professional website disclosed that a scientific research institution of the TuftsUniversity had made a human body experiment with the genetically modified (GM) rice,widely referred to as "Golden Rice," in a primary school of Hunan in 2008, according toan article appeared on the Internet on Aug. 31. The article immediately receivedmassive attentions at home and abroad.
People’s Daily learned that a paper entitled "β-Carotene in Golden Rice is as good asβ-carotene in oil at providing vitamin A to children" was published on the official websiteof the "American Journal of Clinical Nutrition" on Aug. 1.
The paper said that in order to make a comparison of children who obtain vitamin A byrespectively having an intake of the "Golden Rice," spinach and β-carotene in oil, theresearchers of U.S. Tufts University, Hunan Center for Disease Control and Prevention(CDC), Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention and Zhejiang Academy ofMedical Sciences jointly conducted a test on six-to-eight-year-old healthy children in aprimary school of Hunan province in 2008.
According to the paper, the materials used in the research were mainly the GoldenRice and spinach produced in the United States. These materials were processed,cooked, refrigerated and then transported to the experimental site for pupils to eat.
The paper also said that all the authors had reviewed the original manuscript.
The paper has seven authors. The reporter learned that the first author's name isTang Guangwen, who is a researcher at Tufts University; the second author's name isHu Yuming, staff of Hunan CDC; the third author is called Yin Shi’an, researcher ofChinese CDC and the fourth author is Wang Yin, researcher of Zhejiang Academy ofMedical Sciences. The other three authors respectively are named Gerard E Dallal,Michael A Grusak, and Robert M Russell. It is said that the so-called "Golden Rice" isGM rice because it is yellow.
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