This will help assure that even the poorest farmers and consumers will have access to Golden Rice, just
like other rice varieties.
To further minimize the possible accidental mixing of Golden Rice, if it is approved,
with other rice varieties, we plan to work with rice producers in areas where Golden Rice could be grown to develop guidelines for cultivation, harvest, transport, storage, and processing of rice to help keep it separate.
«The worst thing that could possibly happen is that the trait can transfer to
other rice varieties or weedy relatives thru cross-contamination once the field testing is approved.
This increases the contamination threats to
other rice varieties and might have other unintended environmental effects.
It is richer in antioxidants than
other rice varieties and has great anti-inflammatory properties.
These findings are on the one hand relevant for the risk assessment of the transgenic plants: once released, these plants could spread to
other rice varieties and endanger rice harvest.
Some believe that wild rice is the best choice to avoid arsenic, but it's not necessarily any better than white or
other rice varieties.
More so than
any other rice variety, yes, even your regular brown rice.