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Today's courageous truth teller - Dr Árpád Pusztai
Publishing inconvenient studies of risks of genetically modified potatoes.
A Hungarian-born UK Scientist, Pusztai was a world renowned expert on food safety, who worked at UK's leading food safety research lab, the Rowett institute. He evoked world wide media attention in August 1998, when he said in British TV that he would not eat genetically engineered food because of the insufficient scientific testing. In 1999, he published a study about potential dangers of genetically modified potatoes in The Lancet. The potential damage to the biotech industry from this study, and the industry’s massive campaign for public confidence in genetically modified foods, is obvious. Shortly after, the Rowett Institute suspended Pusztai, claimed that his study was not supported by the evidence, and aged him. A scientific committe was asked by the Rowett institute to review the study Pustai referred to. It said there were important deficiencies in the study. Pusztai then sent the research protocols to 24 independent scientists in different countries. These turned down the conclusions of the review committee and found that his research was of good quality and justified his conclusions.