formatting link>Doctors obliged to oppose genetically modified foods
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>15 June 2007
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>By Greg Baxter
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>Doctors have an ethical and moral duty to oppose genetically modified (GM)
>foods in the interest of the health of future and present generations, the
>Secretary of the Irish Doctors Environmental Association (IDEA) has stated. >
>Dr Elizabeth Cullen, a public health doctor in Kildare, has said in a paper set
>to be published in the Irish Medical Journal: "if planting of genetically
>engineered crops is allowed in Ireland, we will leave an irreversible legacy to
>future generations... permission to grow or consume genetically engineered
>foods in Ireland should be denied."
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>IDEA is partially sponsoring a major conference on GM foods in Dublin on 15
>June, entitled: 'Is the European Food Safety Authority downplaying the health
>risks of genetically modified food?'
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>The conference, which has been organised by GM-Free Ireland, will hear
>international speakers discuss the health risks of GM foods, as well as the
>process of genome scrambling, GM maize, and the European Food Safety Authority.
IMJ paper by Dr. Cullen at:
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