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国际环保组织绿色和平8月30日向媒体表示,近日,美国一科研机构发布了其对24名中国湖南省儿童进行转基因大米人体试验的结果。对此,绿色和平组织表示强烈谴责。据绿色和平组织介绍,该项研究旨在检验美国先正达公司研制的转基因“黄金大米”对补充人体维生素A的作用。一篇2012年8月1日发布于《美国临床营养学杂志》的论文显示,这项由美国塔夫茨大学的唐广文领导并获得美国卫生院和美国农业部资金支持的研究最终得以完成。绿色和平组织认为“转基因食品对于人的健康具有潜在的风险,美国一个机构用中国儿童的身体测试转基因大米,我们对这样的实验得以进行感到愤慨和不可思议。”该转基因大米为美国先正达公司研发,其不同于正常大米的主要功能为帮助人体增加维生素A吸收。因为色泽发黄,该大米品种又名“金色大米”。绿色和平组织称,美国的这项研究共选取了72名6～8岁的健康儿童,受试儿童全部是湖南省衡阳市一所小学的学生。研究者令其中24名儿童在21天的时间里每日午餐进食60克黄金大米,并对其体内维生素A含量进行检测,得出的结论是食用黄金大米与服用维生素A胶囊效果相当。绿色和平组织呼吁中国政府相关部门对该研究项目的全过程进行调查,对受影响的儿童及其家庭进行医疗和法律援助,并对现有的转基因水稻实验项目进行严格的管控和生物安全评估。绿色和平人士如此义愤,不少网民也纷纷谴责此事,这个实验真的如此可怕吗?本栏目集纳中国科普先锋“科学松鼠会”的部分人士的评论,供读者参阅。
Greenpeace, the international environmental organization, told the media on August 30 that a U.S. research institute recently released the results of a human trial of genetically modified rice on 24 children in Hunan Province, China. In this regard, Greenpeace strongly condemned. According to Greenpeace, the study aims to test the role of genetically modified “Golden Rice” developed by Syngenta in vitamin A supplementation. A paper published in the August 1, 2012 issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that the study, led by Tang Guangwen at Tufts University in the United States and funded by the U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, was eventually completed. Greenpeace believes that “genetically modified foods pose a potential risk to human health. One agency in the United States has tested genetically modified rice with the Chinese children’s body, and we are indignant and weird about such experiments.” “The transgenic rice is the first of its kind in the United States The company R & D, its main function is different from normal rice to help the body to increase vitamin A absorption. Because the color yellow, the rice varieties, also known as ”golden rice “. Greenpeace said the study in the United States selected 72 healthy children aged 6 to 8 years, all of whom were students of a primary school in Hengyang, Hunan Province. The researchers ordered 24 children to eat 60 grams of gold rice daily for 21 days and to test their vitamin A content. The conclusion was that the consumption of gold rice was equivalent to taking vitamin A capsules. Greenpeace called on the relevant Chinese government departments to investigate the whole process of the research project, provide medical treatment and legal aid to affected children and their families, and conduct strict control and bio-safety assessment of the existing experimental projects on genetically modified rice. Greenpeace is so indignant, many netizens have also condemned the matter, this experiment really so terrible? This column contains China Science Pop pioneer ”squirrel will " some people’s comments for readers to see.