Vietnamese purple sweet potato is not a genetically modified food. It is a hybrid purple potato, non-GMO.
Vietnam is a traditional agricultural country that attaches great importance to agricultural development. Purple sweet potato is also one of the most popular local agricultural products.
The unique tropical climate, with an average annual temperature of 30 degrees, sunshine for up to 15 hours a day, and high-quality gravel soil, allows purple sweet potatoes to grow here with their original fragrant, glutinous, soft, and sweet taste. The temperature is as high as 16 degrees.
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For genetically modified foods, although the models and procedures for safety evaluation vary from country to country, the overall evaluation principles and technical methods are in accordance with the standards of the Codex Alimentarius Commission. formulated.
Compared with the consultation report on the food and feeding safety evaluation of genetically modified high-oleic acid soybeans recently released by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the U.S. evaluation model for genetically modified products is to evaluate products, while my country's genetically modified safety evaluation evaluates both products and processes. From this perspective, my country’s evaluation system for the safety of genetically modified organisms is more stringent.
Based on the standards of the Codex Alimentarius Commission, my country has formulated a series of evaluation guidelines such as the Safety Evaluation Guidelines for Genetically Modified Plants. The food safety of genetically modified products mainly evaluates whether genes and expression products meet the requirements of laws, regulations and standards in terms of possible toxicity, allergy, nutritional ingredients, anti-nutritional ingredients, etc., and whether they bring safety risks. The evaluation content mainly includes four parts .
The first part is the basic information: including the food safety of the donor and recipient organisms, genetic manipulation, description of introduced or modified traits and characteristics, information on actual insertion or deletion of sequences, construction of target genes and vectors The map and its safety, information on each fragment of the insertion region in the vector, transgenic methods, information on the expression of the inserted sequence, etc.;
The second part is the nutritional evaluation: including the main nutritional components and anti-nutritional factors Analysis;
The third part is the toxicological evaluation: including acute toxicity test, subchronic toxicity test, etc.; the fourth part is the allergy evaluation, mainly based on the allergen evaluation proposed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the World Health Organization. The decision tree evaluates in sequence and prohibits transfer to known allergens.
In addition, safety evaluations must be conducted on the safety of genetically modified organisms and their products during processing, the accumulation of foreign compounds, and unexpected effects in genetically modified plants and their products.
Through a series of safety evaluations and tests, the potential risks of genetically modified products in terms of food safety will be eliminated one by one, ensuring that genetically modified foods that have passed the safety evaluation and been approved for marketing can be eaten with confidence.
The only genetically modified crops approved for planting in my country are cotton and papaya, and five crops approved for import as raw materials for processing include soybeans, corn, cotton, rapeseed and sugar beet. Cherry tomatoes, colored bell peppers, pumpkins, cucumbers, carrots, sweet corn, purple potatoes, etc., which are often misunderstood as genetically modified crops, are not actually genetically modified.
People's Daily Online - Experts interpret the safety evaluation of genetically modified foods in my country