Pusztai and that it is necessary to correct that mistake. For sure it should also be clarified why dr. However, it seems that even in a distinct social context the fact still remains that when scientists, artists, and philosophers dare to say what does not fit to the interest of the establishment, they have to be silenced. Pusztai and his team have done excellent work with short and long term nutritional experiments with rats using lectins and at least one line of GM-patatoes containing the GNA gene. One of the parameters they investigated was the resposiveness to mitogenic stimuli of lymphocytes.
Scientist urges more study prior to use by humans.
Unfortunately the experimental basis for the intense and global publicity during August 1998 is not very clear. Presumably the rersults are on experimental feedstuff for rats produced to investigate gut events. Potatoes with a transgenic lectin, such as used in the experimental work by Pusztai, would be produced only in order to do such experimental animal research and under the strictest control. I have not heard that such genetically engineered potatoes have ever been intended for human consumption - much less used for human consumption. It is my belief that plants with transgenic poisons ar toxins should not be allowed for human consumption.