What are the advantages provided by the Golden Rice?

Golden Rice Benefits Golden rice has the promise to help prevent millions of deaths and alleviate the suffering of children and adults with VAD and micronutrient malnutrition in developing countries.

What is Golden Rice and why is it important to developing countries?

Golden Rice offers a sustainable solution to reduce the prevalence of vitamin A deficiency-related diseases and mortality, a problem that affects the health of millions of children in all developing countries.

What are the economic impacts of Golden Rice?

Nutritional and economic ex ante assessment studies of a GRS have shown that Golden Rice can reduce VAD-related mortalities and diseases at less cost than alternative strategies discussed in the literature. Previous studies for India have shown that about 204,000 life years can be saved annually.

Which countries need Golden Rice?

Golden Rice has been accepted as safe for consumption by the Governments of Australia, Canada, New Zealand and USA, and registrations have been applied for in Philippines and Bangladesh.

What are the disadvantages of GM crops?

What are the new “unexpected effects” and health risks posed by genetic engineering?

  • Toxicity. Genetically engineered foods are inherently unstable.
  • Allergic Reactions.
  • Antibiotic Resistance.
  • Immuno-suppression.
  • Cancer.
  • Loss of Nutrition.

Is golden rice good for the environment?

GE ‘Golden’ rice is highly likely to contaminate non-GE rice, if released to the environment. GE rice contamination will affect traditional, conventional and organic rice farmers because they will lose their markets, especially export markets, which would negatively impact rural livelihoods.

How effective is Golden Rice?

Thus, the conversion factor of Golden Rice β-carotene to retinol is 3.8 ± 1.7 to 1 with a range of 1.9–6.4 to 1 by weight, or 2.0 ± 0.9 to 1 with a range of 1.0–3.4 to 1 by moles. Conclusion: β-Carotene derived from Golden Rice is effectively converted to vitamin A in humans.

Is Golden Rice good for the environment?

Why is Golden Rice safe?

Golden Rice, the staple food genetically designed to contain beta carotene, a precursor to vitamin A, has been judged safe to eat by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

Is Golden Rice sustainable?

Golden Rice has a huge, low cost and sustainable potential to help combat vitamin A deficiency, and reduce preventable blindness and death in populations where rice is the staple food, and without changing the culture.