Author(s)

Pengju Liu ¹, Ying Chen ², Jing Guan ², Weizhe Sun ¹, Shuang Jiang ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Department of Health Management, Changchun University of Chinese Medicine, Changchun, Jilin, China
² Department of Department of Clinical Medicine, Changchun University of Chinese Medicine, Changchun, Jilin, China

Corresponding Author

Shuang Jiang

ABSTRACT

With the progress of science and technology, genetic modification technology has seen rapid development, and genetically modified foods have been invented in this context. Genetically modified (GM) food has been controversial since it came out. Some people think that genetically modified food is the product of the development trend of science and technology, and we should accept and vigorously develop it. However, some people believe that GM food is not naturally produced and may be harmful to human health. In this paper, the development status, influencing factors, advantages and potential hazards of transgenic food at home and abroad are analyzed and discussed, and the development direction of transgenic food in China in the future is proposed.

KEYWORDS

Genetically modified foods, transgenic crops, advantage, potential hazards

CITE THIS PAPER

Pengju Liu, Ying Chen, Jing Guan, Weizhe Sun, Shuang Jiang, The Development Status and Influencing Factors of Genetically Modified Food. Journal of Modern Crop Science (2022) Vol. 1: 50-58. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/jmcs.2022.010106.

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