The Ghana Public Health Association organized a scientific seminar to examine the introduction of genetically modified organisms into public use and the health consequences. The seminar was driven by current public debate on the subject. The seminar identified some of the advantages of GMOs and also the health concerns. It is clear that there is the need to enhance local capacity to research th...

The potential of genetically modified plants to meet the requirements of growing population is not being recognized at present. This is a consequence of concerns raised by the public and the critics about their applications and release into the environment. These include effect on human health and environment, biosafety, world trade monopolies, trustworthiness of public institutions, integrity ...

Received 16/4/2013 Accepted 10/6/2013 (005653) 1 Instituto Nacional de Controle de Qualidade em Saúde, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz – FIOCRUZ, Av. Brasil, 4365, Manguinhos, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil, e-mail: [email protected] 2 Universidade de Brasília – UnB, CEP 70910-900, Brasília, DF, Brasil *Corresponding author Detection of genetically modified maize events in Brazilian maize-derived food...

Maize is the grain cereal that basis of human and animal diets in Mexico Latin America; it constitutes an essential crop for global food security. The objective this study was to analyze spatial–temporal evolution scientific production on theme GMO maize, through a bibliometric analysis texts available main editorial houses (Elsevier, Scopus, Springer), open access journal articles database (Co...

The present study investigates the structure of attitudes towards genetically modified (GM) food. A total of 431 respondents completed a questionnaire measuring their overall attitude, cognition and affect towards GM food. A model with distinct positive and negative, affective and cognitive components and a separate factor for perceived risk and worry best accounted for the data. Negative--but ...

In a recent very interesting paper on Indian Indigenous Drugs (The Held for Research in Indian Indigenous Drugs?by R. N. Chopra, m.a., m.dv Lieut.-Gol., i.m.s., The Patna Journal of Medicine, Vol. Ill, No. 3, July, 1928), Col. Chopra has discussed the chemical, pharmacological and clinical aspects of the subject and has also pointed out a few of the economic and scientific aspects of the questi...