Food & Nutrition

Join ACSH directors of bio-sciences and medicine Cameron English and Dr. Chuck Dinerstein as they break down these stories on episode 12 of the Science Dispatch podcast:

Defining Processed & Further Processed

As summer grinds on, the Non-GMO Project is here to reassure consumers that seedless watermelon is not genetically modified. “Are those watermelons a GMO?

Sri Lanka ran an evil experiment on its citizens last year.

Quick note, you can find my report on dietary salt in China here. 

Traditional Uses

For more than two decades, anti-GMO groups have resorted to the same dishonest claims about the risks of genetically engineered crops.

 

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