Genetically Engineered Animals and Your Family’s Diet
The same government agency that has failed to protect us from salmonella in peanut butter, BPA leaching into our children’s foods and beverages, melamine in formula, among other health dangers, will soon be allowing the by-products of genetically engineered animals to reach our grocery stores. In January 2009, the FDA released the “Guidance for Industry #187″, which provides regulation guidelines that pertain to genetically engineered animals containing heritable recombinant DNA constructs. Therefore, these are not even enforceable regulations on the animal agriculture industry.
