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  • Possibilities and dilemmas of using transgenic food in human nutrition = Možnosti in dileme uporabe transgene hrane v humani prehrani
    Čepin, Slavko ; Čepin, Nada ; Salobir, Karl
    Expanded needs for food resulted in search of new prospects for higher food production and better quality. Gene technology means a quicker way to reach these objectives than the traditional selection ... of animals and plants do. Gene transfer enables the transfer of genes among not related organisms, which might cause ethic problems. In Europe the opposition to transgenic food is stronger than in the United States. Even that there are many antagonists to transgenic food, there are about 35 mills. ha sown by transgenic plants, primarily by soya following by maize, potatoes and cotton. Gene transfer in animals has still been used for research purposes only; hence, a wide use of meat of transgenic animals or other food products will not emerge in the next few years. Gene technology enables the increase of production in plants, as well as the rise of resistance to pests, viruses, frost, etc. Gene transfer isused to modify the physical and chemical composition and nutritional value of food (more unsaturated fatty acids, transfer of sunflower proteins into maize, etc.). Over 50 transgenic plants are used worldwide, 21 of them in the United States and 9 in the European Union, but in EU, only a few of them are used in agriculture. Gene transfer in animals will play a part in boundless possibilities of improvement the qualitative and quantitative traits. The yield, carcass composition and meat characteristics, the use of nutritive substances, and resistance to diseases can be improved. On the other hand, negative effects of gene technology on animals, human, and environment should be considered. Geneticallz modified food should be marked so that a consumer could freely decide whether to use it or not. Gene technology cannot solve all the problems of world nutrition but let this revolutionary method be legally applied.
    Vir: Acta agriculturae slovenica. Suplement. = Supplement. - ISSN 1854-4800 (Št. 1, avg. 2004, str. 105-111)
    Vrsta gradiva - prispevek na konferenci
    Leto - 2004
    Jezik - angleški
    COBISS.SI-ID - 1612936

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