a single injury to health would be banned

The researcher Francisco Garcia Olmedo, a member of the Royal Academy of Engineering, said that "it is totally impossible to find a single instance of harm to health caused by GMO foods, because if this happens, the ban within 24 hours." On the other hand, stressed that organic food "has already caused several deaths and dozens wounded by intoxication."

So I explained at the conference, Aion, 'Agriculture, food and poverty', as part of the days devoted to GMO foods in the summer courses at the Catholic University of Valencia "San Vicente Martir ', held these days in Santander .

According highlights the University in a statement, Garcia Olmedo has indicated that the inspections provided for GMO foods are the most stringent in the history of scientific innovation.

Indeed, the European Commission approved in April for the first time in 12 years, the cultivation of a transgenic, namely a potato variety called 'Amflora' not for human consumption, but industrial use.

On the other hand, the academy has insisted on the potential of genetically modified food in poorer countries, especially taking into account estimates of the FAO, the United Nations Organization for Food and Agriculture on the need to increase food production by 70% by 2050, as world population reached 9,000 million.

Given these figures, Garcia Olmedo said that "hardly going to solve the problem of hunger without technical progress."

Moreover, considered "severely untrue, as put forward some organizations, that hunger in the Third World answer to a problem only sharing and distribution of food." "You can not solve the problems of the future back to the techniques of the past," concluded the academic.