The public must be alarmed with the great risks of
Golden Rice consumption to food safety and public health.
Not exact matches
According to research published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, daily
consumption of a very modest amount of
Golden Rice — about a cup (or around 150 g uncooked weight)-- could supply 50 % of the Recommended Daily Allowance of vitamin A for an adult.
We, with some key partners, will test to what degree daily
consumption of
Golden Rice improves vitamin A status under controlled community conditions.
This beta carotene is the same as that found in other food, and recent research suggests that
consumption of about one cup of
Golden Rice a day could provide half of an adult's vitamin A needs.
HKI will serve as an independent evaluator to determine the efficacy of
Golden Rice, that is, whether its
consumption improves vitamin A status.
Our project to develop and evaluate
Golden Rice in the Philippines and Bangladesh hopes to build on this knowledge in the future to evaluate whether daily
consumption of
Golden Rice improves vitamin A status.
Calculated labeled retinol species in the circulation of a representative volunteer, throughout the course of the study, after
consumption of [13C10] retinyl acetate on day 1 and after a deuterium - labeled
Golden Rice β - carotene dose on day 8.
For
Golden Rice β - carotene, analysis of serum samples by liquid chromatography / atmospheric pressure chemical ionization - mass spectrometry (23) showed that the labeled β - carotene was absorbed intact after
consumption of the cooked
Golden Rice.
A much longer exposure with a larger cumulative
consumption of
Golden Rice would be needed to make definitive assertions regarding the inherent safety of this food for human use.
It should be noted that we closely monitored our subjects for any possible adverse effects after the
consumption of
Golden Rice and found no evidence of any problems, including allergic reactions or gastrointestinal disturbance.
With the increasing adoption and
consumption of
Golden Rice over space and time, its costs will be split among more and more beneficiaries and it represents an increasingly better use of our resources — meaning more resources become available to address other, pressing problems in the field of agriculture, food, nutrition and health.
«Initial analyses of the potential nutritional benefits of
golden rice suggested
consumption of
golden rice would not eliminate the problems of vitamin A deficiency, but should be seen as a complement to other methods of vitamin A supplementation.