GOLDEN rice is still a sticky issue. Just months after publication of a landmark study showing that the genetically engineered food has the potential to prevent childhood blindness, the researchers behind the study face accusations of breaching ethical regulations.
Critics of the rice, engineered to contain beta-carotene to boost dietary vitamin A, previously said it doesn't contain enough of the stuff to block blindness caused by vitamin A deficiency. Last year's study concluded that just 100 to 150 grams of the rice supplies 60 per cent of the recommended daily intake of the vitamin.
Now, three Chinese researchers have been sacked following an investigation led by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Beijing, which says they failed to tell parents of children taking part in a trial that the rice was genetically modified.
Adrian Dubock of the Golden Rice Project, who was not involved in the study, says the language in the consent form matched that in an earlier US trial of the rice.
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