Science group says biotech feed is safe

A three-member task force of the Council for Agricultural Science and Technology compiled the report, which looked at regulatory assessments and evaluated safety data. "Meat, milk and eggs produced by farm animals fed biotechnology-derived crops are as wholesome, safe and nutritious as similar products produced by animals fed conventional crops," said John Bonner, the council's executive vice president. The council, based in Ames, Iowa, and formed in 1972, is a consortium of 38 scientific and professional societies as well as company and nonprofit members and more than 1,200 individual members. The group brings together agricultural experts from around the world to assemble, interpret and communicate scientific information and gets funding from its members, which include biotech companies. Doug Gurian-Sherman, a senior scientist with the Center for Food Safety, an environmental advocacy group, said the center recommended that people not eat genetically engineered products. "Because the testing is inadequate, we can't be as confident about the safety as we should be," Gurian-Sherman said. Copyright © 2006 the International Herald Tribune "Source":[ http://www.checkbiotech.org/root/index.cfm?fuseaction=news&doc_id=13217&start=1&control=165&page_start=1&page_nr=101&pg=1]

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