NOT QUITE A CONSENSUS VIEW. “Our gut already contains … bacteria carrying resistances to kanamycin and ampicillin … (The) antibiotic marker genes in GM crops. There is a huge reservoir of ampicillin resistance genes in soil and these can be readily transmitted to gut bacteria. Current medical opinion is that the antibiotic markers used in … crops do not pose any infectious disease risk.”
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Nigel Fleming
September 21, 2022