It completed the most extensive study of the impact of GMOs on human health.

 

 Genetically modified organisms (GMO) - an organism whose genotype is  artificially modified by genetic engineering techniques. Changes have  been made deliberately, for example, in the case of crops  - increasing  productivity, improving the taste and nutritional value of  foods,  resistance to pests, etc.
 

In 2015, genetically modified crops amounted to 99% in the United   States crop harvested sugar beets, soybeans 94%, 94% cotton and 92%  corn  fodder.
 

In the world of 12% of all arable land occupied by GM crops.
 

Since the 1970s, scientists studying the potential risks associated  with the use of GMOs. To  clarify this issue, the American Academy of  Sciences, Technology and  Medicine organized the most extensive study to  date of almost 900  scientific articles published over the past 30  years, on the impact of  GM crops on human health and the environment.  Analysis  of the articles lasted two years, a committee of 50  scientists,  researchers and experts on agriculture and biotechnology.  The document criticized 26 independent experts.
 

And finally the work is finished: May 17th 400-page report published   in the public domain, and all the accompanying documents - on a   specially created website.
 

According  to the results of research in hundreds of scientific  papers found no  signs of the negative impact of the products of GM  crops on human  health. Eating  foods from GM crops did not correlate  with the disease of cancer,  obesity, diabetes, gastrointestinal  diseases, kidney disease, autism and  allergies. Do not set the  long-term increase of the incidence after mass  distribution of food  products from GM crops in the US and Canada in 90  years.
 

Moreover, it found certain evidence of the positive impact of GMOs on   human health due to the reduction in the number of insecticide  poisoning  and improve the vitamins of the population of developing  countries.
 

In addition to health effects, two more important aspects of the use   of GMO crops have been carefully analyzed: it's impact on the   environment and the importance for farmers.
 

"The use of insect resistant and herbicide crops does not reduce the   overall diversity of flora and fauna, and insect-resistant culture   sometimes increase it" - this conclusion of the study in terms of the   impact of GMOs on the environment.
 

One of the common concerns about GMOs, artificial genes that  penetrate into the wild, too, turned out to be groundless. Although  research has shown that this process is possible, but it was  not  possible to detect any adverse effects of the gene transfer.
 

In the end, the study of productivity and profitability of farms,  too, did not reveal any alarming trends. Corporations  sell GM crops to  farmers at a premium price, and forbid them to breed  on their own,  because they are protected by patents. But the losses are more than  offset by increased yields and other benefits that farmers receive.
 

Scientists  can not find at least some signs of harm to GM, but  public opinion is  still negatively perceives genetic engineering. Most  of the population of the USA, EU, Russia and other countries fear that  products with GMOs are a threat to health. This  delusion is actively  used by food manufacturers to promote their  products c labeled "GMO",  including table salt and other foods that are  not related to  genetically modified crops. This mark was the marketing tool of  differentiation in the market.
 

Regulators  and legislators are forced to listen to public opinion,  so that until  now the use of GMOs in agriculture rather rigidly  regulated.