Golden Rice Study Violated Ethical Rules, Tufts Says
Tufts University announced on Tuesday that one of its researchers broke ethical rules while carrying out a study of genetically modified "Golden Rice" in China.
According to the Tufts report, the scientific conclusions of the study remain valid. The researchers had found that a single bowl of this rice can supply more than half of a child's daily Vitamin A requirement — the most convincing evidence so far that Golden Rice can, in fact, be a useful tool in fighting malnutrition. But when the study was published last year, anti-biotech campaigners at Greenpeace China immediately called it a scandal, accusing the research team, led by Tufts's Guangwen Tang, of feeding children a "potentially dangerous product" without informing their parents of exactly what the children were eating.
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