Main Pathogens Found In GM Foods

Food is an essential, fundamental issue related to life and health and our use of land. Thus, public acceptance of genetically modified (GM) crops will be affected not only by scientific assessments of safety to human consumers and the environment but also by people’s beliefs about right and wrong, natural and unnatural.

To date, all studies of GM crops used in foods have been shown to be as safe, for human consumption, as conventional crops.

Methods for estimating total incidence of disease caused by different food borne pathogens were described and the various uncertainty factors were discussed.

Norwalk-type viruses appear to be responsible for the highest number of cases of food borne illness; Salmonella and Campylobacter are the most frequently isolated bacterial causes of food borne disease. E. coli, Listeria monocytogenes, and Clostridium botulinum are all important pathogens because of their potentially lethal effects.

Reference: www.wisc.edu/fri/annrpt/2000annmtgsummary.pdf