Expert: Ordinary people are too pessimistic to the food security

Expert: Ordinary people are too pessimistic to the food security
The transgenic crop has obvious advantages. The picture is the comparison of transgenic rice and non- transgenic rice, in resisting the insect pest, the former has an obvious advantage.
Held in Beijing in the near future " The transgenic crop seminar " Have, has interviewed food science of China Agricultural University and project dean Professor Luo YunBo of the nutrition in reporter's recently very sensitive food security and GM food question.
Professor Luo has rosy cheeks, China is angry and sheer, seem very healthy, enables people to this " food and nutrition " The dean has produced the minimum trust sense. Though hold the sensitive administrative position, modest and candid that Professor Luo is still bringing a scientific worker the characterized one, positive to answer a lot of sharp questions.
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The food security question has been exaggerated
The Beijing News: As the expert, are you different from people usually while buying titbits usually? Go to the supermarket to do shopping, the composition of those additive all flashes in the brain out?
Luo YunBo: No, No. I think ordinary people estimate the situation of the food security of our country too seriously. In general terms the food security state of our country is not imagining so terrible. And the situation of the food security is taking a favorable turn over these years. A part in fact essential to food industry of additive, no additive, no food industries. I think I guarantee the food security is mainly that there are correct psychology and correct understanding. Food can't say you like which one go forever where one does it wipe out, you want various food to collocate. If you eat a kind of food staring at, will probably eat and go out of order.
In addition, there may be some harmful compositions in some true food, but people have ability to detoxify, if the speed that you detoxify is greater than the speed that is accumulated, it is safe to you. We talk about some insects, steep pesticide, die, it is it that has already suited to this poisonous substance. So you can't be partial to a limited variety of food.
The Beijing News: The intersection of insect and natural selection, resist medicine, live ability that get off resist medicines, but can not let the people not antitoxic all die?
Luo YunBo: The human body can produce and resist ability, immune ability naturally, there are a lot of microorganisms in our digestive tract, they can help us to deal with the poisonous substance.
The Beijing News: The course with one's own a natural selection of those microorganisms?
Luo YunBo: It is like this. It has a course met too. There are few toxin and pathogenic microorganism contained in the air of developed country, water, soil, so the people of theirs come to our country begins not to suit, " suffer from diarrhoea " This barrier, various fungus groups in his digestive tract have been equilibrated after finishing drawing the stomach, all right later. We do not pay attention to the food security if I do not talk about because in this way, we want to pay attention to, but needn't be panic either.
The Beijing News: Which link do you think the food security mainly has gone wrong?
Luo YunBo: This question is very complicated. One is a question of the regulatory ystem, one is a question of the sense of responsibility, and the questions of the laws and regulations. Some of these problems can be solved now, some are because of developing stage of society, can't still solve for the moment. That need is only effective regulation, strict supervision, and the production of sincerity now, there is ripe consumption. In this way, will make our food security environment have very great changes.
The Beijing News: What kind of function scientific research institution should play inside?
Luo YunBo: We play a function supported on the food security, for example the support that offered on the technological aspect, whether have a question by scientific appraisal for the food, let ordinary people know too. We will make some standards, will confirm whether the existing standard is scientific, in order to play a role in supervising the food security. And the technology of food production, such as green agricultural technology. It is to offer the technology that measures to have again.
The Beijing News: Then gather cyanogen amine incident to say, certainly begin to have one stage not to know that added and gathered cyanogen amine three times in the food three times, it is certainly unable to make the standard of measurement. Then, it should be proactive to measure, or find what there is a detection method again?
Luo YunBo: We should do risk assessment, should predict the danger that may meet. If certainly have not foundation at all not to predict either. For example gather cyanogen amine this three times, adding and gathering cyanogen amine three times in American animal's feed in 2007 meets accident, we should realize all food which use protein detection amount as the quality criteria and may mix with and gather cyanogen amine three times, if we had corresponding measures at this time, then avoid the malignant incident for the future.
The Beijing News: Is not there a system of risk assessment at that time?
Luo YunBo: Does not really have, we are building this set of systems now. This has already written inside of " food safety law ".
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Prejudice injures the GM food
The Beijing News: Does the security of that GM food have a risk too?
Luo YunBo: Compare the traditional crossbreeding, actually security is higher for the GM food. GM food to promote way of biotechnology to transfer a certain living beings to a certain gene in fact. It improves heredity pointedly, it is more accurate, efficiency is higher. For example a gene which we need, only this gene is what we need in a crop. Through the regular breeding, while we get the gene that we need again, will probably get some genes that we do not need, the gene that including may be harmful to us. But we it takes a long time to reject these genes not needed to screen it, gradually these exclusion not needed. We breeding learn house very much hard thus. A lot of breeding it studies houses to be to face loess, carry towards it really, very difficult to educate, produce new variety. Moreover, the GM food receives very good supervision, does not turn out out of hand.
The Beijing News: But the security question of a lot of food was just found a lot of years after putting into the market.
Luo YunBo: Really. But the food security is not absolute, safety factors are absolute that do not have in the food. Do you say the traditional food is totally safe? We have already eaten for ten thousand years to roast food, found recently that there is carcinogen. So we can't be put off easily by a slight risk.
The Beijing News: What GM food does our country sanction now to go on the market?
Luo YunBo: Our country criticizes formally now
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