BEIJING http://www.vapormax2019shoessale.com/ , Sept. 12 (Xinhua) -- A war of words by two online celebrities has aroused a new round of debate on the safety of genetically modified (GM) food, with some experts appealing for the consumers' right to be informed when buying GM products.
Fang Zhouzi, a biochemist and vocal supporter of GM technology, led more than 20 volunteers eating GM corn on Saturday at an experimental field of corn of the China Agricultural University, and on Sunday, well-known talk show host Cui Yongyuan questioned Fang on microblog.
Following Cui's microblog postings, Fang refuted, and the dialogue grew heated Wholesale Nike VaporMax Free Shipping , attracting many netizens and experts into the discussion.
As GM food remains controversial worldwide, and the debate did not come to any agreement, but consumer awareness of GM products, with the gradual flows of such products into our daily lives, has been heightened by the exchange.
According to the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications, 28 countries have planted GM crops, and on the planet 81 percent of soybeans, 35 percent of corn and 30 percent of oilseed rape are GM products.
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"People have the right to know what they are eating and the choice of whether to have GM food should be left up to them," said Cheng Tongshun, doctoral supervisor with the Zhou Enlai School of Government at Nankai University.
"Consumers' right to be informed and freedom of choice should be safeguarded," Cheng added.
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Xinhua reporters found cooking oil products of well-known brands labeled GM or non-GM in several big supermarkets in Beijing and Tianjin, with non-GM especially evident.
For other products, including soy sauce and soy milk, such marks are not regularly seen on the labels, especially for those made by less popular manufacturers.
A salesman for a grain and oil foreign invested enterprise, who would only gave his surname as Zuo, said that soy sauce makers buy transgenetic beans from him to reduce costs, with GM soybeans at 4 Wholesale Nike VaporMax Mens ,260 yuan (around 700 U.S. dollars) per tonne and non-GM soybeans more than 5,000 per tonne. Some soybean sauce makers do not label transgenetic soybeans.
Xinhua reporters also found that nearly all fresh agricultural products lack GM information, although some fresh transgenetic agricultural products are popular at local markets.
"China should borrow the experience of managing GM products from developed countries and further regulate and improve them," suggested Wang Junping, professor at Tianjin University of Science and Technology.
Liu Junhai, a professor at Renmin University of China, said business operation, supervision Wholesale Nike VaporMax Womens , food and drug safety and health departments should cooperate to set up a network of sharing information on transgenetic products.
"Such a network could alleviate people's fears as the information would be transparent and could be examined," Liu added.
STOCKHOLM, Sept. 21 (Xinhua) -- Swedish Secret Services (Sapo) are assessing the threat of a potential terror attack targeting Stockholm, after a rumor of an attack circulated on social media during the night, public television news broadcaster SVT reported Thursday.
Sapo would not comment on the actual threat but emphasized similar threats were not unusual.
"About every other day we get this kind of information," Nina Odermalm-Schei, a spokesperson for Sapo, told SVT.
"We receive about 6 Wholesale Nike VaporMax Silver ,000 threats a month regarding terrorism. When we get this kind of threat we find out more by gathering and assessing information to gauge the level of truth to it," she said, adding that the unusual component of this threat is that it spread in social media.
The current threat level in Sweden remains at three on a scale of one to five, where five is the most serious threat level.
"Listen to what the authorities say and be extra watchful. If you observe anything suspicious you should report it to the police," Justice Minister Morgan Johansson said.
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