• Peer-reviewed journal article

• maize

• insect resistance

• USA

• no effect

[First paragraph in lieu of abstract] To the Editor: Starlink corn is a genetically engineered corn developed by Aventis CropScience (Research Triangle Park, NC) to express an insecticidal protein Cry9c (also known as Bt protein). This protein is derived from the bacterium Bacillus thuringensis and is directed at lepidopteran and coleopteran insects. Starlink corn also contains genes from Streptomyces hygroscopicus, which make the corn tolerant to glufosinate herbicides. In 1998, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved registration of Starlink for restricted use as animal feed. In September 2000, the consumers’ group Friends of the Earth announced that traces of Starlink corn DNA were found in taco shells made by Kraft Foods (Phillip Morris, Northfield, Ill), signifying an inadvertent introduction of this transgenic food into the human food supply.1 This initiated the eventual recall of several hundred corn products by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), aswell as larger concerns about how this transgenic foodhad entered the human food supply.

• Division of Allergy and Immunology, Cincinati Children's Hospital Medical Center

• United States

• NGO: independent

MLA

Sutton, SA, AH Assa'ad, C Steinmetz, ME Rothenberg. "A negative, double-blind, placebo-controlled challenge to genetically modified corn." The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology 112.5 (2003): 1011-1012. Web. 20 Apr. 2024.

APA

Sutton, SA., Assa'ad, AH., Steinmetz, C., & Rothenberg, ME. (2003). A negative, double-blind, placebo-controlled challenge to genetically modified corn. The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 112(5), 1011-1012. doi:10.1016/S0091-6749(03)02024-4

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