What are we fed and what we ourselves eat

[Classic fortified milk yoghurt with banana and Rastishka biscuits, 3% fat.]

I propose a topic for conversation "What we are fed and what we ourselves eat", where you can enter the composition of the products offered by stores, quite well-known and which we gladly eat, and about which we know very little, since the whole truth is hidden or absent on packages.
After reading the composition of the products, I want to say: we need it !?

Classic fortified milk yoghurt with banana and Rastishka biscuits, 3% fat.

Yogurt composition: normalized milk, filler (banana puree, sucrose, glucose-fructose syrup, calcium lactate / calcium gluconate, stabilizers: E1442, locust bean gum; flavor identical to natural banana, acidity reg.: citric acid, ascorbic acid; vitamin premix, beta-dye carotene), sugar, skimmed milk powder, yoghurt starter.

Cookie composition wheat flour, sugar. butter. wheat starch, glucose-fructose syrup, whole milk powder, sea salt, sweet whey powder, stabilizer calcium carbonate, leavening agents: ammonium bicarbonate, sodium bicarbonate; reg. acidity citric acid, vanilla flavor.

Chewing gum "Orbit"

Ingredients: sorbitol E420, maltitol E965, rubber base, stabilizer E422, thickener E414, mannitol E421, emulsifier soy lecithin, sweeteners aspartame E951, acesulfan K E950, dye E171, glaze E903, antioxidant E320, phenylalanine, etc.

Rusks with mushroom flavor "Bombaster"

Ingredients: food flavoring "mushrooms" (mushroom powder, maltodextrin, flavor enhancers E621, E627, E631), anti-caking agent E551. flavoring substances, natural and identical to natural, etc. (not specified)

E621, E627, E631 - stimulate appetite, when consumed in large doses, causes weakness, heart palpitations, loss of sensitivity in the back of the head and back.
Maltodextrin is a sealant, binding agent, its harmfulness has not been proven, but its use in the production of baby food is prohibited.

Maltodextrin is a blend of glucose, oligosaccharides and malt sugar. It is well digested and promotes insulin production.

I specially looked at the can with baby food and boxes of porridge: instead of sugar, there is maldextrin everywhere, food is not cheap and not domestic.

MALTODEXTRIN
A product obtained from natural starch by its technological processing, as a result of which polyatomic starch molecules are divided into parts. Maltodextrin (or molasses) is food grade (not a food additive). It is used in products to improve their consistency and is highly soluble in cold water. Maltodextrin has a sweetish taste and is absorbed by the body better than regular starch, that is, it does not create problems with excess weight. This property makes it attractive for use in a wide variety of industries:

Beverages and Instant Foods - Used as a flavoring thickener in chocolate, coffee, jelly, puddings, instant foods, soups, and frozen desserts;

Bakery products and pastries - used as a water-retaining agent, which allows the product to remain fresh longer;

Dairy products - used as a thickener in the production of sour cream, cheese, whipped cream;

Confectionery - in glazes, sweets, sweets, creams;

Pharmaceuticals - Used as a carrier.

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["Miracle" -products]

"Miracle" -products

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How can you make popular kefir, yogurt, curd, ice cream from ordinary tap water? The tricks of chemical products are striking in their naturalness and deliciousness!
We receive more and more questions from our readers about the scandal in which the sanitary doctor of the Russian Federation Gennady Onishchenko ordered legal entities and individual entrepreneurs to stop production and remove food additives and food products containing guar gum (E 412) of Indian or Swiss made with a high content of dioxin and pentachlorophenol.
So what kind of animal is this - Guar gum?

Guar gum itself is a powder that is made from the seeds of Cyamopsis tetraganoloba, a plant known as guar, or more simply: the pea tree. Since 1907, the guar tree has been recognized as a source of plant raw materials suitable for human consumption and, above all, for cattle, although this plant has always been cultivated in western India and the bordering regions of Pakistan. Today, India's annual harvest accounts for nearly 80% of the world's total.
The following main varieties of Indian guar are known: Pusa Mausmi, Pusa Sadabahar, Pusa Baubanar, Durgapura Safed. Plants differ in height and the time it takes to start fruiting.
In 1957, guar gum was introduced to the international market. For commercial purposes, the thickening power of guar was mainly used.

As a thickener, guar gum has been used in the paper, mining, textile, oil, cosmetic and pharmaceutical industries. Subsequently, guar gum was used in the food industry.

The yield of trees depends on the meteorological conditions of flowering, ripening, heavy rainfall increases the yield of trees. At the end of October, the harvest is harvested and dried for 15 days in the fields under the sun. Waste from the collection of seeds, due to the high fiber content, is used for livestock feed. Photo: Dried guar pods and beans.

Guar crushed is ground into powder using mechanical action. To control the physical parameters, various grades of guar powder are used, differing in particle size, viscosity during hydration of guar gum with water, and the degree of hydration.
Chemically, guar gum is a nonionic polysaccharide of plant origin. The molecular structure is a straight chain formed by galactose and mannose, hence guar gum is a galactomannan.
Galactomannan is a high molecular weight hydrocolloid. When dissolved in cold and hot water, guar gum forms a highly viscous gel.
The viscosity of the gel depends on the temperature, time and concentration of the guar gum.

In food formulations, guar gum is used as a thickener with the following properties: viscosity control, stabilization of emulsions, prevention of syneresis; imparting gustatory fullness and creamy consistency to emulsion products; preventing the growth of ice crystals, stabilizing the overrun and increasing the elasticity of the finished product.
In dairy products, guar gum is used to retain moisture, in frozen products it is used as a viscosity regulator to give a homogeneous creamy structure. The formation of stable suspensions facilitates the implementation and acceleration of various technological stages and helps to extend the shelf life of the finished product. During the cheese making process, guar gum promotes curd formation and increases yields. Some special grades of guar gum are more resistant to mechanical stress and dissolve more easily.
These qualities are successfully used in the production of mayonnaise, dairy desserts, ice cream, and low-fat dressings.

A recognized advantage of guar gum is the ability to reach the maximum possible viscosity values ​​in the first 3 minutes when hydrated. This property of guar gum is used to stabilize soups, instant cereals, syrups and fruit drinks, instant drinks.

In confectionery, guar gum is used as a dough improver to reduce moisture loss during production and storage. In some baked goods, guar gum promotes film formation and a crispy and crumbly texture. In instant pasta, it is used to give a homogeneous structure and quick cooking.
Guar gum, with its wide range of uses, is the most economical food stabilizer available.

Today, no product can be produced without this bean filler. For any manufacturer, this is just a gold mine.
The fact is that the cost of this miracle is from 40 to 60 rubles per kg. At the same time, in order to get the same yogurt, for 100 liters of tap water, you need only 50-70 grams of guar gum! Then you stir - and the Miracle is READY: 100 liters of yogurt - just have time, pour it.
Not bad: 100 liters of yogurt for 60 rubles!

For the convenience of manufacturers, large chemical giants have developed a number of chemical powders and methods for the production of any "food".
Moreover, inquisitive scientists managed to chemically modify the guar itself. Today, you can buy at the Chemical Plant not only raw materials for the production of plastic bags, but also food products that are superior to natural Guar Gum: Methylcellulose, Methylhydroxypropylcellu vine; Hydroxypropyl cellulose; Highly purified sodium carboxymethyl cellulose ...

Here's an example of how to make mayonnaise with water - by adding a chemical ingredient:
You add to 100 liters of water
- Geny pectin, Slendid® type 120 - which is a fat substitute, gives the product a pleasant creamy taste;
- xanthan gum, KELTROL® - which provides texture, stability, palatability and good fluidity properties of the product. Provides emulsion stability, creamy taste;
- gellan gum, KELCOGEL® - which develops the product's body and viscosity.
And again, a delicious Miracle - 100 liters of mayonnaise for only 100-200 rubles of powders.

The sticky and thickening properties of these substances act in cold water and dissolve in hot water, forming a homogeneous jelly-like and usually tasteless mass when cooled.
The use of Xanthan gum in the production of the same bakery products increases the volume of output by at least 2-3 times. At the same time, the product has a pleasant taste, aroma and does not stale. What else does an entrepreneur need to get good profits and meet a wealthy old age?
The same focus occurs in the production of sausages, all kinds of semi-finished products ... and at the same time, the taste itself only increases every year, as the variety on the market increases and expands - chemical flavoring additives ...

Everything would be beautiful and fun, in all this Gum-and, if it were natural and edible. But in this Comedy - not a comedic ending in the form of serious physiological diseases. Eating plastic food really destroys the body of a Living Human.

[Drink Coca-Cola children!]

Drink Coca-Cola children!

Author of "World of News"

The Coca-Cola story claims.
In many US states, traffic police always have 2 gallons of Cola in their patrol car to flush blood off the highway after an accident.

• Put a steak in a plate of Coca-Cola - and after 2 days you will not find it there. To clean the toilet, pour a can of Coke down the sink and leave it on for an hour.
• To remove rust stains from the chrome bumper of your car, rub the bumper with a crumpled sheet of aluminum foil dipped in Coca-Cola.
To remove corrosion from batteries in a car, pour a can of Cola over the batteries and the corrosion will disappear.
• To loosen a rusted bolt, dampen a rag with Coca Cola and wrap it around the bolt for a few minutes.
• To clean any dirt on your clothes, pour a can of Coca-Cola over a pile of dirty clothes, add detergent and machine wash as usual. Cola will help get rid of stains. Coca-Cola will also clean road dust from the windows in your car.
• The active ingredient in Coca-Cola is phosphoric acid. Its pH is 2.8. It can dissolve your nails in 4 days.
• To transport Coca-Cola concentrate, the truck must be equipped with special pallets designed for highly corrosive materials.
• Coca-Cola distributors have been using it to clean their truck engines for 20 years.

The composition of Coca-Cola Light is decaffeinated.
Ingredients: Agua carbonatada, E952, E150d, E950, E951, E338, E330, Aromas, E211.
1. Agua carbonatada - sparkling water.
2. E952 - Cyclamic acid and its sodium, potassium and calcium salts. Sugar substitute. Cyclamate is a synthetic chemical. It has a sweet taste 200 times that of sugar and is used as an artificial sweetener. Refers to substances prohibited for use in human food, since it is a carcinogen that causes cancer. In 1969, by order of the Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 34 FR 17063, it was banned for use in the United States, as it was proven that, like saccharin and aspartame, it causes bladder cancer in rats. Banned in Canada in the same year. Banned in 1975 in Japan, South Korea and Singapore. Banned for use in the beverage industry and in Indonesia. In 1979, the World Health Organization (WHO) rehabilitated cyclamates, recognizing them as harmless !?
3. E150d - dye - sugar color 4, obtained by the “ammonia-sulphite” technology (CARAMEL 4 - Ammonia-sulphite). That is, sugar color (burnt sugar) is obtained by processing sugar at certain temperatures with or without the addition of chemical reagents. In this case, ammonium sulfate is added.
4. E950 - acesulfame potassium - 200 times sweeter than sucrose. In soft drinks, a mixture of acesulfame potassium with aspartame is widely used. Pros. Stored for a long time, does not cause allergic reactions, is not caloric. Minuses. Contains methyl ester, which impairs the work of the cardiovascular system, vaporogenic acid, which has an exciting effect on the nervous system and is addictive. Acesulfame is poorly soluble. Products with this sweetener are not recommended for children, pregnant and lactating women. A safe dose is no more than 1 g per day.
5. E951 - aspartame - a sugar substitute for diabetics, consisting of two amino acids (dipeptide): asparagine and phenylanine. It is also recommended for those who control their weight. The National Soft Drinks Association (NSDA), representing 95% of the soft drink companies in the United States, compiled a protest published in the May 7, 1985 US Congressional Report describing the chemical instability of aspartame. After a few weeks in hot climates (or being heated to 30o Celsius (86o Fahrenheit), most of the aspartame in the soda breaks down into formaldehyde, methanol, phenylalanine, etc. Ingested, methanol (methyl or wood alcohol that killed or blinded thousands of drinkers) is converted into formaldehyde, then into formic acid (poison from an ant bite).
Formaldehyde is a substance with a pungent odor, a class A carcinogen. Phenylalanine, on the other hand, becomes toxic when combined with other amino acids and proteins. During pregnancy, aspartame can act directly on the fetus, even when taken in very small doses. The FDA has received over 10,000 consumer complaints about aspartame, accounting for 80% of all food supplement complaints.The FDA is silent, the public is largely unaware, believing that since a product is so widely advertised it must be safe. The FDA has 92 documented cases of aspartame poisoning, including loss of touch, headaches, fatigue, dizziness, nausea, palpitations, weight gain, irritability, anxiety, memory loss, blurry vision, rashes, seizures, loss of vision, pain in joints, depression, spasms, diseases of the reproductive organs, weakness and hearing loss. Also, aspartame can provoke the following diseases: brain tumor, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, Graves' disease, chronic fatigue, Parkinson's and Alzheimer's diseases, diabetes, mental retardation, tuberculosis, it can even cause death.
6. E338 - ortho-phosphoric acid - chemical formula H3PO4. Appearance - colorless or with a faint yellow tint liquid in a layer of 12-15 mm when viewed against a white background, with a faint odor. Unlimitedly soluble in water, forms solutions of any concentration. Fire and explosive. Irritating to eyes and skin. Application: for the production of phosphate salts of ammonium, sodium, calcium, manganese and aluminum, as well as for organic synthesis, in the production of activated carbon and film, for the production of refractories, refractory binders, ceramics, glass, fertilizers, synthetic detergents (CMC), in medicine, the metalworking industry for cleaning and polishing metals, in the textile industry for the production of fabrics with flame retardant impregnation, in the oil and matchboxes. Food grade orthophosphoric acid is used in the production of carbonated water and for the production of salts (powders for making biscuits, crackers).
7. E330 - citric acid - colorless crystals. Widely distributed in nature. Citric acid is obtained from tobacco and by fermentation of carbohydrates (sugar, molasses). They are used in the pharmaceutical and food industries. Citric acid salts (citrates) are used in the food industry as acids, preservatives, stabilizers, and in medicine - for preserving blood.
8. Aromas - aromatic additives, which ones are not specified.
9. E211 - sodium benzoate - an expectorant, food preservative in the production of jam, marmalade, melange (confectionery), sprat, chum roe, fruit juices, semi-finished products. Benzoic acid (E210), sodium benzoate (E211) and potassium benzoate (E212) are introduced into some food products as a bactericidal and antifungal agent. These include jams, fruit juices, marinades, and fruit yoghurts. Foods containing sodium and calcium benzoates are not recommended for asthmatics and people who are sensitive to aspirin

What happens to your body if you drink
Coca-Cola?

In 10 minutes.
10 teaspoons of sugar will hit your system (this is the daily recommended amount).
You are not tempted to vomit because phosphoric acid suppresses the effects of sugar.
In 20 minutes.
There will be a spike in blood insulin. The liver converts all sugar into fat.
In 40 minutes.
Caffeine absorption is complete. Your pupils will dilate.
Blood pressure will increase because the liver releases more sugar into the bloodstream.
Adenosine receptors are blocked, thereby preventing drowsiness.
In 45 minutes.
Your body will increase the production of the hormone dopamine, which stimulates the brain's pleasure center.
Heroin works the same way.
After an hour.
Phosphoric acid binds calcium, magnesium and zinc in your gut, speeding up your metabolism.
The excretion of calcium through urine increases.
More than an hour later.
Diuretic action comes into play.
Calcium, magnesium and zinc, which are found in your bones, are eliminated, as well as sodium, electrolyte and water.
More than an hour and a half later.
You become irritable or lethargic.All the water contained in Coca-Cola is excreted through the urine.

In India, cola helps control pests.
Six months ago, the Indian Parliament considered the issue of bad
the quality of Coca-Cola and Pepsi supplied to the Indian market, in which
allegedly contains pesticides. Their level in "Indian" fizzy drinks
36 times the amount of pesticides compared to those colas and
Pepsi that Americans and Europeans drink. Delhi lawmakers called for
government to tighten quality control and tighten standards.
Representatives of Coca-Cola C ° and PepsiC ° Inc strongly disagree
agreed with the findings of the Delhi Science Center for Environmental Protection
Wednesday and stated that their products were completely clean. They were already
ready for the fact that after such "advertising" the sales volumes of cola and pepsi
will fall sharply. In fact, however, everything turned out to be exactly the opposite.
When from India to the headquarters of these multinational corporations
information about a sharp increase in sales began to arrive, managers
for a long time they could not understand what was the matter. True, growth has been achieved
exclusively at the expense of rural areas. As the traders themselves said,
if before they sold in one village per month on average 30
packs with 12 one-liter bottles of "fizzy", then starting with
August, this figure has risen to almost 200!
Confusion over the unexpected thirst of Indian peasants quickly
dissipated. Indian cotton growers bought cola in addition to
pesticides. Mix pesticides that pests quickly
get used to it, with a syrup based on Coca-Cola and Pepsi they were advised
scientists. The very ones who claimed to be in fizzy sugary drinks
there are harmful substances. Having made simple calculations, the peasants
realized that this method of controlling insects is more profitable than buying clean
chemicals. But the most important thing is that the "explosive mixture" was not
only cheaper, but also significantly more effective than pure pesticides.
"We saw that cola has a strong effect on insects -
tells Hamunaya, one of the pioneers of a new way of dealing with
pest, a villager in the southeastern state of Andhra Pradesh.
Thanks to cola and Pepsi, he saved the cotton crop this year. - Bugs,
when you spray them with solution, they become lethargic and fall to the ground.
In addition, sugar attracts red ants, which devour the larvae.
pests ". // Source" World of news "

Wanderer thanks for the interesting article, not cola, not Pepsi, I don't drink when, but the children sometimes began to drink, although they know that it is harmful, I will definitely print it out and let them read it. When my children went in for sports (rowing), they were strictly forbidden to drink cola and Pepsi.

I don't drink Coca-Cola and all other drinks of this kind.
Once upon a time, I have already read such information. I checked only the interaction of Cola with meat, it did not go anywhere, and did not even decrease in size.
I can imagine what will happen to the glass if it is washed with Cola, I think it will become sticky and remain dirty.
Etc.

The husband really was spinning the rusty bolts with cola.
We are generally not supporters of drinking any sweet water. We even try to drink little juices. Just water from under the filter, or compotes.
Mother-in-law makes cool kvass.

A couple of years ago I cleaned the scale on the teapot and soaked the cups with a sprite - all traces of tea were washed off by themselves. Citric acid is also added there, so it gives this effect.

Celestine, why a couple of years ago? found some better way to sprite?
and I wash the kettle from scale with citric acid.
I'll try with a sprite too. The main thing is to rinse thoroughly afterwards.

Celestine, why a couple of years ago? found some better way to sprite?

It was just that at that time only the sprite was at home, and the kettle had to be cleaned. Citric acid will be cheaper

And I used a sprite a couple of years ago to clean the scum on the teapot and soak the cups - all traces of tea were washed off by themselves.Citric acid is also added there, so it gives this effect.

And now I'm putting on an experiment, only with cola. I have an electric kettle, it is already 5 years old, I bought it back in the days when many goods were sold without instructions in Russian and Ukrainian, and somehow I had the question of timely prevention of the kettle from scale, and poured water there, never looking what's going on there. He looked once and gasped. I began to work out this question, what to do. Then I learned that once a month the kettle should be subjected to execution with citric acid. Only now this scale did not go away from me all the same completely, because only partially. That is, the prevention of the previous month, and what was before that, nothing took. And all the same, gradually, this scale, everything came and went, despite my exposure to citric acid, and later already with vinegar (I switched to vinegar, reading that it should be stronger than citric acid), and at one point the teapot started to try - stopped turning on. And yesterday, under the influence of the material about cola, I decided to execute the cola. Poured cola. An hour later, the kettle started working! In the morning I looked, there was a lot of scale, but not completely. Remembering the history of the dissolution of the steak cola within 2 days, I decided to subject my kettle to this period too - let's see what happens, whether the scale goes away completely or not.

Yes, apparently, the article against Cola is ordered!
Of course, there is harm from cola (and why is there no harm now?, But not as much as described in the article.
I kept the cola in the electric kettle for about 5 days, the spiral remained in place (I thought the fate of the steak described in the article awaited it), no, it did not disappear anywhere, and the plaque did not completely disappear, somewhere only half the plaque came down and that's it, did not want to leave further.

[Who secretly feeds Russia GM food]

Who secretly feeds Russia GM food

In September 2002, the Sanitary and Epidemiological Inspectorate came into force, obliging to label products containing more than 5 percent of GM sources, however, the lines “contains genetically modified sources” or simply “GMO” appear extremely rarely on products. According to estimates of consumer organizations, there are now 52 names of products on the Russian market that contain more than 5 percent of GMOs (organisms), but are not labeled. These are primarily meat products - sausages and boiled sausages, sometimes containing more than 80 percent of transgenic soybeans. In total, more than 120 names (brands) of GMO products are registered in Russia, according to the data of voluntary registration in a special register of products imported from abroad. Thus, the list of ingredients used in the preparation of some types of dumplings ("Dumplings without haste, pork and beef", classic "Daria" dumplings) did not indicate vegetable protein, although studies have revealed its presence and established that it is genetically modified. And, for example, frozen meat semi-finished products produced by MLM-RA LLC, in general, had a reverse marking - "Does not contain genetically modified components." This turned out to be untrue: GMI was found in the "Vkusnye" beef steaks. Among the manufacturers, the products of which contain GMI, were: LLC "Daria - semi-finished products", LLC "Meat-processing plant Klinsky", MPZ "Tagansky", MPZ "CampoMos", CJSC "Vicyunay", LLC "MLM-RA", LLC "Talosto- products ", Ostankino MPK, Bogatyr Sausage Factory LLC, ROZ Mari Ltd. However, according to the participants of the press conference, sellers of GM products cannot be blamed for anything." Neither Seventh Continent, nor a single the trading company is not to blame and is not responsible for the actions of the manufacturers. The trading company cannot inspect each of the products. I would in no way ask you not to perceive this press conference as an attempt to accuse any of the sellers and even manufacturers. This is just a demonstration of what is actually happening in Russia, "Ivan Blokov told RBC daily.
Who supplies GM products to Russia

Manufacturing company Unilever:
Lipton (tea)
Brooke Bond (tea)
"Conversation" (tea)
Calve (mayonnaise, ketchup)
Rama (oil)
"Pyshka" (margarine)
"Delmi" (mayonnaise, yogurt, margarine)
"Algida" (ice cream)
Knorr (condiments)

Manufacturing company Nestle:
Nescafe (coffee and milk)
Maggi (soups, broths, mayonnaise, spices, mashed potatoes)
Nestle (chocolate)
Nestea (tea)
Nesquik (cocoa)

Manufacturing company Kellog's:
Corn Flakes
Frosted Flakes
Rice Krispies (cereal)
Corn Pops
Smacks (flakes)
Froot Loops (colored flakes-rings)
Apple Jacks (apple flakes)
Afl-bran Apple Cinnamon / Blueberry (bran flavored apple, cinnamon, blueberry)
Chocolate Chip (chocolate chips)
Pop Tarts (filled biscuits, all flavors)
Nutri-grain (toast with toppings, all types)
Crispix (cookies)
All-Bran (flakes)
Just Right Fruit & Nut (cereal)
Honey Crunch Corn Flakes
Raisin Bran Crunch (cereal) Cracklin 'Oat Bran (cereal)

Manufacturing company Hershey's:
Toblerone (chocolate, all kinds)
Mini Kisses (candy)
Kit-Kat (chocolate bar)
Kisses (candy)
Semi-Sweet Baking Chips (cookies)
Milk Chocolate Chips (cookies)
Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
Special Dark (dark chocolate)
Milk Chocolate (milk chocolate)
Chocolate Syrup (chocolate syrup)
Special Dark Chocolate Syrup (chocolate syrup)
Strawberry Syrup (strawberry syrup)

Mars manufacturing company:
M & M'S
Snickers
Milky way
Twix
Nestle
Crunch (chocolate rice flakes)
Milk Chocolate Nestle (chocolate)
Nesquik (chocolate drink)
Cadbury (Cadbury / Hershey's)
Fruit & Nut

Manufacturing company Heinz:
Ketchup (regular & no salt) (ketchup)
Chili Sauce
Heinz 57 Steak Sauce (sauce for meat)

Coca-Cola Manufacturing Company:
Coca-Cola
Sprite
Cherry cola
Minute maid orange
Minute maid grape

PepsiCo manufacturing company:
Pepsi
Pepsi cherry
Mountain dew

Manufacturing company Frito-Lay / PepsiCo:
(GM components can be found in oil and other ingredients)
Lays Potato Chips
Cheetos

Manufacturing company Cadbury / Schweppes:
7-Up
Dr. Pepper

Pringles manufacturing company:
Pringles (chips with Original, Low Fat, Plzza-licious, Sour Cream & Onion, Salt & Vinegar, Cheezeums)
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Marking for "Frankenstein food"

What nicknames have not been given to products made from genetically modified organisms! They have been dubbed both "Frankenstein's food" and "zombie food".

In the West, many people refuse to consume foods made from GM organisms. Most European governments have declared a moratorium on the import of GM products and obliged manufacturers to label products containing these components.

In Russia, on September 1, 2002, the Resolution of the Chief State Sanitary Doctor of the Russian Federation "On the introduction of sanitary rules" (dated November 14, 2001, No. 36) came into force. This document (SanPiN 2.3.2.1078-01) contains a norm on mandatory labeling of products containing more than 5% GM components. By the way, the law obliged manufacturers to do this since 1999.

Moreover, regardless of the percentage of GM-raw materials in the product. However, the doctors could not control the implementation of this decree before the new SanPiN came into effect. Sanitary doctors will not have the opportunity to check each product, GM raw materials are coming to our market in an avalanche, and consumers often do not even know about the potential danger of transgenic products.

Our correspondent Vera Ponomareva interviewed Maxim Vonsky, candidate of biological sciences, researcher at the Institute of Cytology of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

- What, in your opinion, is the danger of GM products?

- There are several levels of understanding of what is the real and potential harm of GM components in general. Let me give you a simple analogy. There is a radio receiver, there is a radio amateur boy who already knows what a transistor and a resistor are, and he really wants to connect a light bulb to this radio receiver to light up a dark closet. The boy finds with a voltmeter where there is voltage, and solders a light bulb into it. The light is on, the boy is happy. But he does not think about which wavelength he will receive interference, or which station will not work. Today, scientists cannot say exactly where the genetic construct is inserted in the chain, and what changes occur in the genome during the transformation process. And the worst thing is that not fully understanding this, humanity releases GM organisms into nature. And this act is irreversible.

There is a known case when genes-modifiers of corn, which give it resistance to aluminum (this crop does not grow well in soil with a high aluminum content), were found in Mexico in places where ordinary, unmodified corn grew. That is, these genes have given GM corn such a selective advantage that it replaces "natural", unmodified varieties.

Already now, European farmers say that they cannot guarantee the complete absence of GM components in their products.The reason for this may be the accidental ingestion of GM crops on farm fields (for example, the wind carries seeds for many hundreds of kilometers), as well as mixing of GM crops with "natural" ones during storage.

- How safe is food containing GM foods?

- The consequences of the use of GM foods are still very poorly studied, and no one can guarantee their safety for human health. As a result of the introduction of foreign genes, harmful substances can form and accumulate in GM plants. Studies of transgenic potatoes have shown that the toxin produced in its cells affected the size of internal organs in rats. In addition to toxins, gene transplant produces new proteins that can be strong allergens. So, the company "Pioneer Hi-Bred Int." engineered soybeans with Brazil nut genes in the hope that it would improve the quality of soy protein. Researchers from the University of Nebraska in an experiment found that eating such GM soy can cause severe allergic reactions in people who are allergic to Brazil nuts.

In most cases, it is impossible to predict whether a particular product will prove to be hazardous to allergy sufferers. Some people may develop sensitivity to GM foods gradually, while others may develop an allergic reaction immediately after the first meal.

- Some scientists believe that as a result of the escalation in the number of GM crops, the genes that are responsible for low sensitivity to antibiotics traditional for medicine and veterinary medicine may be transferred to humans. Do you share these concerns?

- In nature, there is a "horizontal" gene transfer (when genes are not transferred from mother to child, not from ancestor to offspring, but between two unrelated organisms). It is theoretically possible that genes, including genes for antibiotic resistance, will pass from plants to microorganisms, from microorganisms to some other higher organism, or directly from microorganisms to humans. And even the spread of these antibiotic resistance genes and in the microflora can lead to unpleasant consequences.

- You are now taking part in a project that the Institute of Cytology of the Russian Academy of Sciences is implementing jointly with the international organization Greenpeace. What tasks is it intended to solve?

- Before introducing the labeling of goods and products containing GM components, it is necessary to define what we can call “GM-free products”. We are now developing the standard for such "clean" products. The hardest part here is to understand what we will call GM-free products, because you can determine the concentration at the level of 0.5% and even 0.05%.

That is, there is a "level of detection" by the research method. And we can only say that this product does not contain GM components at the detection level. One millionth of a percent can be, because the same mills grind flour from modified and normal soybeans. Naturally, some kind of impurity, pollution is always there. It is important to understand which impurity is significant.

Such a test will cost the manufacturer inexpensively, and already now many large stores and restaurants are showing interest in this. They are interested in promoting their product as environmentally friendly. The development of a standard for products "free" from GM components, in which we participate, is the first step towards the creation of a GM control system, which will not appear very soon.

- How can we navigate the goods offered to us until the standard of "GM-purity" has been developed, and the corresponding inscriptions have not appeared on the packaging of the products? Many experts advise avoiding foods that contain soy. Are their fears fair?

- According to various estimates, from 30 to 60% of all soybeans on the world market are genetically modified.When buying a product containing soy flour, be it sausage or baby food, we cannot be sure that the manufacturer purchased unmodified flour, because Russia does not even have separate customs codes, a separate classification for GM products. The manufacturer often does not know himself that he is being sold genetically modified raw materials.

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Genetically modified foods: quiet takeover of the Russian market

What are genetically modified organisms, what danger to human health can be posed by the use of GM crops in food, is it possible to trust what we eat and what human intervention in the genetic apparatus of plants can turn out to be a boon or a catastrophe - these are the questions that are being asked today by scientists both in Russia and in the world.

According to the doctor of biological sciences, an employee of the Institute of Plant Physiology. Timiryazev Vladimir Kuznetsov, the most important thing is to determine to what extent products containing GM organisms are dangerous to human health.

"The whole problem is that the technologies for producing GM organisms are imperfect. A genetic engineer today can take a fragment from a mouse or fish and insert it into a specific place in the plant's genome," says the scientist.

“And just imagine,” Kuznetsov continues, “that a small program is being introduced into a gigantic program that determines the entire life of a plant! This can lead to serious disruptions in the process of plant development, and we do not know how a person who uses it will react to this genetically modified plant. for food ".

Candidate of Biological Sciences Alexander Baranov explains the consequences of introducing genetically modified organisms into plants even more easily.

"If you put a nail in your hand, your body will begin to resist, your temperature will rise, as a reaction to the intrusion of a foreign object into your body. So the same thing happens here!", - he explains.
Green fish

"Not so long ago, as an experiment, a growth gene was inserted into the fish. As a result, they began to grow faster, but turned green," recalls Baranov.

The fish experiments were carried out in Taiwan. Scientists from the Taikong Corporation modified the genetic code of the striped zebra fish using jellyfish DNA. As a result, the hatched fish began to glow in the dark with a mysterious yellowish-green light.

According to Taikong, the fish will soon go on sale. Great interest in the new product is demonstrated by British companies, where the "aquarium" business has reached incredible heights. The creators of the "night pearl", as they dubbed the fish, assure that it is completely safe, incapable of reproduction, and its fluorescent glow is harmless to those who look at it.

However, if the British are ready to treat an outlandish pet with complacency and take it as a fashion accessory, then the inhabitants of Britain, and indeed Europe in general, look at the consumption of genetically modified food products.

Europeans stubbornly refuse to consume GM food, fearing that it is unsafe for health. Although some products containing genetically modified plants are still imported into Europe, at the end of 2002 the European Union issued a four-year ban on new GM crops. In addition, products made with GM components should already be labeled in European stores.

All this causes considerable irritation in the United States, which is the largest producer of GM products.
Squeezing out of the market

However, if the European consumer can control what exactly he buys in the store and, if desired, ignore GM products, then in Russia it seems that the buyer does not yet have this opportunity. And this is also a cause for concern for scientists.

"The Russian market is literally squeezing out normal food products with products containing GM organisms, and in most cases the consumer is not even aware of what he is buying," says Kuznetsov. "That is, the elementary human right to know what he eats is being violated."

"The problem is solved in an elementary way: all products with GM organisms must be labeled, that is, the packaging must be written: this product contains components of genetically modified organisms. Then each customer will know exactly what kind of food he is eating," the scientist said.

One of the main arguments of American scientists involved in the creation of genetically modified crops is the direct economic benefit to agriculture.

The use of GM plants can allow farmers not only to increase their production, but also to significantly reduce the use of pesticides. For example, according to American scientists, growing cotton obtained using biotechnology requires 40% less pesticides than usual.

However, as Russian experts say, in a sense, the use of chemical plant protection products is safer than genetically modified organisms.

“To date, the American company Monsanto has registered two varieties of genetically modified potatoes in Russia,” says Alexander Byrikhin, an employee of the “August” company, which produces plant protection chemicals. “Both of these varieties are resistant to the Colorado potato beetle. But we must not forget that many pests often become resistant to one or another means of protection. "
"If you buy - I will produce"

“What will we do if the Colorado potato beetle develops resistance to GM potatoes? It will be much more difficult to change the variety,” warns Alexander Byrikhin. us".

But entrepreneur Boris Vershinin, a specialist in the improvement of seed potatoes, admits that he personally does not care much about the safety of genetically modified products for human health.

“As a manufacturer, it doesn't matter to me,” says Vershinin. “If you buy GM potatoes from me, then I’ll produce them! Let science prove the effect of agricultural products with introduced modified crops on the human body.”

“We, the producers, are much more concerned about something else: today there is a purely economic struggle, the seizure of the market, and, unfortunately, not by domestic, but by foreign producers. And it turns out that we are completely dependent on Uncle Sam,” the businessman is annoyed.


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[America is giving up GM foods]

America is giving up GM foods

Last week in the United States, for the first time, a “legislatively formalized” protest of the population against the use of biotechnology in agriculture was recorded. Residents of Mendocino County, California, famous for its wines, supported a ban on the production of genetically modified foods in a referendum. About 97% of citizens eligible to vote took part in the referendum, and 56% of them were in favor of the ban. Apparently, the people of America are no longer as unanimous as the manufacturers of GM products (primarily Monsanto) are trying to present, support the consumption of genetically modified food. It seems that Americans, despite the widespread propaganda of GM foods, are gradually beginning to doubt that GM foods are absolutely harmless. It is not surprising that today in many mass media of the country there have begun to appear reports that almost the entire nation, for some unknown reason, is covered by an epidemic of "overweight".According to recent studies, the average weight of Americans has increased over the past 10 years - and this is how much time has passed since the beginning of the mass introduction of GM crops - by almost 2 kg, while the average height has remained the same. American scientists still stubbornly refute any relationship between the consumption of GM foods and overweight among their citizens, but despite this, the phrase "we are what we eat" for the United States is becoming more relevant today than ever.

American manufacturers of genetically modified food, despite the ban on the use of their technology in most countries of the world, until recently in their homeland felt extremely at ease thanks to good connections in power structures. They even managed to ban the labeling of GM products and thus deprive Americans of choice. However, last week, the producers of the so-called "Frankenstein food" received a real stab in the back: residents of one of the counties of California voted overwhelmingly against the use of biotechnology in agriculture in their administrative unit. Of course, this does not mean the emergence of any active opposition to GM products throughout the country. American propaganda is working well so far, and most Americans still believe that the rest of the world’s protest against GM products is caused solely by the fact that people in other countries simply from “anti-Americanism” do not want to eat what Monsanto and Washington recommend to them. However, these illusions are unlikely to last long. In February, a group of American scientists published a report that in 50 years there will be no "natural" living organism left on the American continent - all living things will be genetically modified. In this regard, scientists call on Europe, Russia and all other countries where these technologies are not yet widespread, to categorically prohibit all gene development. According to them, now it is not so much human health that is under threat as the survival of our entire biosphere.

However, in the literal sense of the word, serious problems are also observed with the health of Americans. In order to be convinced of this, it is enough just to walk along the streets of any city in America. More than half of the passers-by you meet will be either impressive, or very impressive, or simply incredible in size. This is confirmed by the latest research by doctors in the United States. According to the data obtained, almost every fifth man can be classified as "burly", the same number are obese, two-thirds of women have a pear-shaped figure, and most of the fair sex in the United States today simply would not fit into sizes that have long been considered standard ... But the worst thing is that children also suffer from this "strange obesity". At the end of last year, information was published in the United States that one in four children in the country are overweight and have high blood pressure. “There is a completely logical explanation for this, to which the United States is still strenuously turning a blind eye. The combination of GM foods and malnutrition, which is generally a distinctive feature of America, gives simply disastrous results, and in 15 years the situation will begin to develop even more rapidly, ”said Alexander Baranov, senior researcher at the Institute of Developmental Biology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Candidate of Biological Sciences, to RBC daily. - And, as always, the young generation will suffer first. Already, Americans are experiencing long-term consequences - a huge number of obese people. This is the result of hormonal shifts caused by the fact that women during pregnancy ate chicken meat, which contained additives (chicken growth hormones), and their children became obese by the age of 11-12 years.What consequences for embryogenesis may arise when eating GM food, no one can say for sure, since no one allocates money for such a test. It is possible only by indirect scientific data to predict that the consequences can be no less tragic and large-scale. "

In America itself, along with the usual "negative" position, critical views on the consumption of completely untested GM foods are also beginning to appear. “There is absolutely no connection between eating genetically modified foods and being overweight among our citizens. This is a completely ordinary food, it does not cause any unhealthy appetite, '' Jane Riesler, a senior researcher at Union of Concerned Scientists, an organization that actively promotes the consumption of GM foods, told RBC daily. - Indeed, many of the additives have not yet been fully studied, but this does not mean at all that they are harmful. Active protests are expressed mainly in European countries and are conditioned, in my opinion, exclusively by European conservatism. " However, according to other American scientists, certain fears are well founded. “Many Americans today stop buying groceries in regular stores and prefer to shop in stores that sell so-called 'organic' food,” a source at the US National Academy of Sciences told RBC daily. - After all, it is impossible to completely ignore the fact that the effect of GM products on the human body has not yet been sufficiently studied. There must be at least some kind of self-preservation mechanism. " True, experts say, the forces are still unequal. The protests of ordinary Americans will go unheeded as long as companies like Monsanto, already embedded in the existing political establishment, receive strong support from Washington, which sees cheap GM foods as an important element of American economic influence in the world. “This is elementary money laundering, and none of the myths that are so actively launched in the media today (feed the hungry, increase yields, help children in third world countries suffering from vitamin deficiency, dystrophy, etc.) have nothing to do with reality , - believes Alexander Baranov. - And the fact that the human body will sooner or later be able to adapt to new gene products is also a myth. These are biologically alien elements to us, and if everything continues this way, the world will simply be doomed to disaster. In the United States, the processes of introducing GM technologies are already practically uncontrollable. And, alas, it is impossible to predict the consequences to which all this will lead ”.



There is no reliable control system for the use of GMO in Russia

In Russia, European standards for transgenic products are being introduced. Since Tuesday, Russia is introducing European standards for labeling food products containing genetically modified sources (GMOs).

Meanwhile, the Russian branch of Greenpeace announced the first results of the action "No transgenes on the tables of Russians!" The organization has published a list of manufacturers supplying stores with meat, fish products and confectionery, baby food and drinks with genetically modified ingredients. There are 129 enterprises in this list. However, experts believe that buyers still do not fully know what they are eating.

Scientists still have not come to unequivocal conclusions about whether genetically modified foods are harmful to human health. Thus, the president of the National Association for Genetic Safety, Alexander Baranov, declares that the use of such products is a "time bomb". The consequences may not affect the consumers themselves, but their children.

"Transgenic products are when, in fact, a foreign gene is introduced into the system of correlated (linked) traits and disrupts the balanced system," explains Alexander Baranov.- Changes in the work of genes lead to the appearance of completely wild and never previously encountered in nature. It's like the American chicken story. They were fed hormonal supplements and said that these supplements are absolutely harmless, and then it turned out that the hormones did not work on the people who ate the meat of these chickens, but they hit the children who were carried in the womb. The children were born as if normal, but when they reached the reproductive age - 12 years old, when the hormonal system turned on and worked intensively, the "chicken hormones", which were silent for the time being, also turned on. This is where all these trapezoidal bodies, obese people came from. "

"Now the same companies that produced these hormones produce diet pills. This is the world of business and money. Human interests are attracted here" by the ears "and for specific products. . These are just myths: to feed the peoples, to feed the countries, "says Baranov.

On June 1, Russia introduced European standards for labeling food products containing GMI - now the label must indicate the presence of more than 0.9% of transgenic components.

However, the size of fines for violation of the order of the chief sanitary doctor of the Russian Federation Gennady Onishchenko is ridiculously small: from 100 to 20,000 rubles.

Independent environmentalists and representatives of the Confederation of Consumer Societies (ConfOP) doubt that all manufacturers will comply with these guidelines. Many of them did not label their products even with more lenient requirements (from September 1, 2002, products with a GMI content of 5% or more had to be labeled in Russia). Moreover, in Russia there are no methods and equipment for the objective analysis of products.

"While Russia does not have a reliable control system for the use of GMI in food and for labeling," says Natalya Olefirenko, a spokesman for the Russian branch of Greenpeace, "buyers will literally not know what they are eating."

In this situation, consumers have to be content with little. The Russian branch of Greenpeace has prepared a "Handbook for the Consumer", which presents data on enterprises that manufacture products using GMI.

The directory contains three lists - "green", "orange" and "red".

The "green" list includes companies that have given written guarantees that they will not use GM components. In "orange" - companies that used the GMI out of ignorance, but are ready to give up this practice. In "red" - manufacturers who use GMI and are not going to abandon them, or companies that have not provided any information about themselves.

The Greens sent out questionnaires to over 1000 enterprises. However, the overwhelming majority of manufacturers ignored the request of environmentalists. As a result, a total of 314 companies were included in the list.

129 companies were included in "red". Among them: JSC "Ice-Fili", LLC "Company from Palycha", CJSC "Mikoyanovsky meat-packing plant", JSC "Mosagroprom", LLC "Ochakovo-16", CJSC "Rublevskie sausages and delicacies", CJSC "Russian sausage house", OJSC Russkoe Bistro, OJSC MPZ Tagansky, LLC Talosto-products, OJSC Cherkizovsky MPZ, confectionery factories OJSC Bolshevik and Udarnitsa, experimental confectionery and bakery plant Zvezdny.

However, according to experts, this list cannot be called objective. For example, the "green" list (173 companies) includes "Daria" LLC, although back in January the "green" ones found GM components in the dumplings of this company.

The name of the confectionery factory "Udarnitsa" is on both the "green" and "red" lists.

"The lists reflect only the companies' GM policies, but do not guarantee the presence or absence of GM in specific products manufactured by those companies," Greenpeace said.

Alexander Baranov, President of the National Association for Genetic Safety, doubts the objectivity of the guide. "The very idea of ​​compiling such a guide is laudable. But I doubt all the manufacturers told the truth," he said.

In the course of the laboratory examination carried out by the Institute of Nutrition of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences and Greenpeace, only products from 12 manufacturers that are included in the "orange" list were tested.

This list includes "Bogatyr" Sausage Factory, "CampoMos" plant, "Tsaritsyno", Tushino meat processing plant, "Baby Food" Istra-Nutricia LLC, "Kolinska" company - Baby cereals (Poland).

But even the "orange" have complaints about the compilers of the directory. So, representatives of OOO "Meat Processing Plant" CampoMos "reported that they independently sent the plant's products to one of the French laboratories, whose specialists found only hundredths of a percent of GMI in the samples presented.

In response to the accusation, Greenpeace employees suggested that products made from a different batch of raw materials were sent to France for examination.

The method of creating GMI is to change the genetic structure of plants in such a way that they acquire new properties: they become less susceptible to pests, diseases, or acquire resistance to drought and cold weather.

Transgenes can now be found in sausages, pates, chips, baby food, chocolate and soda. In most of these products, the transgenic protein is 70-80%.

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), in order to check the safety of GMI, it is necessary to analyze the toxicity, allergenicity, and stability of the structure of such products.

One of the studies was carried out in the UK by Dr. Pusztai, and the other in Russia, at the Institute of Nutrition of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences. The experiments were carried out on laboratory rats fed with GM potatoes. The results obtained are largely similar: in rats, the cellular structure of the stomach and liver was disturbed, the blood formula changed, the weight of the animals and the weight of their brain decreased.

However, there is no unequivocal scientific evidence of the harm or benefit of GM foods for humans so far.

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[EVERYTHING WILL BE WELL ... UNLESS THE GRASS RUNS OUT]

"I am concerned that some advances in science may lead to the creation of new types of weapons of mass destruction, perhaps even more affordable than nuclear. Genetic engineering can be attributed to such achievements due to the frightening development that it has received recently."
Joseph Rotblat, 1995 Nobel laureate.


At the end of the 20th century, futurologists who have delighted us over the past fifty years with their inventions once again hit the sky with their “forecasts”. Despite all the "authoritative" assurances about the achievement of almost twenty billion people by the beginning of the XXI century, the "forecast" again failed to come true - nowadays there are about 5 billion people living in the world. However, even this not "predicted" figure is very solid, which justifies speculation about the lack of food, allegedly due to the overpopulation of the Earth. In fact, this is the magic of a large number and nothing more. Imagine a piece of land - 50 by 50 km., If all living people come together, and on each square. meter will stand up to two people - this is all the inhabitants of our planet. Agree, two people per square meter is much freer than in a subway car during rush hour.

In addition to “overpopulation”, for almost half a century there has been noisy use of the “on-duty” and very profitable topic about the proximity of an environmental disaster, from the use, for example, in agriculture of pesticides, fertilizers and other “chemicals”. However, even if these "problems" did not exist, then some scientists, in order to solve their completely different tasks, would still strive to plant biotechnology in agriculture, or, as it is fashionable to say now, genetic engineering (GM).

The essence of the GI is as follows: every plant or animal has thousands of different characteristics.For example, in plants it is the color of the leaves, the number of seeds, the amount and types of vitamins in the fruits, etc. A certain gene is responsible for each trait (Greek genos - hereditary factor). A gene represents a small chunk of a deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) molecule and produces a specific plant or animal trait. If you remove the gene responsible for the appearance of some trait, then the trait itself will disappear. And on the contrary, if you introduce, for example, a plant, a new gene, then it will have a new quality. The modified plant is called euphoniously - transgenic, but it is more correct to call it, as it is customary from time immemorial - a mutant (Latin - modified).

The manipulation of genes, and essentially an invasion of the divine prerogative, inevitably leads to unpredictable consequences and dangerous surprises that pose a threat to plants, animals and the environment in general. Researchers who conducted experiments at the University of Michigan found that the creation of virus-resistant GI plants forces these viruses to mutate into new, more resistant and therefore more dangerous forms. Scientists in Oregon discovered that the GM microorganism Klebsiella planticola "ate" absolutely all nutrients in the soil (so far, fortunately, not on the entire planet Earth, but only at the test site). In 1997, the US Environmental Protection Agency made similar statements about the transgenic bacterium Rhizobium melitoli and so on. Alas, this list is terribly long.

Western European greens (Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and other organizations) dubbed GI food "Frankenstein's food." Perhaps some of the readers will be jarred by this. However, even on closer examination of the dangers that "Frankenstein's food" threatens, the hero of Mary Shelley's novel will seem like a mischievous person who can only frighten preschoolers.

For example, the American company Pioneer Hi-Breed Int designed GI soy with Brazil nut genes in the hope of "improving" soy protein. Researchers from the University of Nebraska conducted an experiment - they took blood serum from people who are allergic to Brazil nuts. It turned out that if these people eat GM soy (crossed with Brazil nut), it will cause a severe allergic reaction, possibly fatal. In this regard, the New England Journal of Medicine sadly states: “In this case, the donor gene was known for its allergenic effect, it was possible to take a blood test in time from people susceptible to allergies to this product. As a result, GM soybeans were hastily withdrawn from production ... Next time we may be less fortunate. "

Genetically engineered soy is an invention of the chemical giant Monsanto. With the help of genetic engineering, DNA particles of a petunia flower, bacteria and a virus were inserted into its gene code. None of these components have ever been part of the human diet. Research by the British corporation "Sainsbury" and "Marks-Spencer"; French "Carefo"; sanitary services of Holland, Switzerland, Denmark, Great Britain; the Japanese agro-industrial corporation Kirin Brewery; Mexican research centers and Russian scientists - Irina Yarygina, Viktor Prokhorov and many others - unequivocally confirm the conclusion that, for example, the use of GI-soy provokes the onset of oncological and nervous diseases, leads to irreversible changes in the human immune system.

After many years of research, specialists at the Cornell University Pediatrics Clinic (New York) are firmly convinced that feeding children with GI soy products (even with a partial content!) Increases the risk of thyroid gland diseases at least threefold, scientists from the Federal Department of Agriculture agree with this. economy of the United States.

But while the essence and the matter are, the GI corporations are hecticly continue to distribute press releases about the results of regular studies of certain groups of nameless scientists (remember the Soviet - "group of comrades").The veracity of these reports is reminiscent of the veracity of The Personal Memoirs of H. P. Blavatsky, written for some reason by Mary Nef. World-renowned experts trying to bring harmony to the cacophony of the "chorus of anonymous" are immediately obstructed. But what is characteristic, many companies using GI technologies, verbally declare that they do not use GI, they categorically do not give such confirmation in writing. The fact is quite remarkable.

In 1999, editorials in major British newspapers were devoted to the scandalous research findings of Dr. Arpad Pustai (Rowett Institute). Dr. Pusztai discovered that genetically engineered potatoes, in which the genes of the snowdrop (!) And the commonly used promoter, the cabbage mosaic virus, were inserted into the DNA, caused breast disease.

A root vegetable called "potato-viral-snowdrop" (a sort of three-wheeled barbell) differs significantly in chemical composition from "simple" potatoes and affects the vital organs and the immune system of the laboratory rats that ate it. But the most alarming thing was that the disease in rats arose, apparently, under the influence of a viral promoter used in almost all GI products (soybeans, corn (maize), tomatoes, etc.).

Speech by Dr. Letting go on television generated a wild reaction. He was fired immediately. But, nevertheless, they heard. The Royal Society of Great Britain ordered from now on to publish only the final results of scientific experiments and began to study the arguments given by Pusztai. And the British Medical Association has demanded a moratorium on the cultivation of GM crops. Her Majesty's government, which has been silent for a long time about GM-technologies, has officially come out with a proposal to investigate the possible health risks of GM-foods. And Prince Charles, unexpectedly for many advocates of "healthy" GI nutrition, led ... the fight against GI food intended for baby food! But that's not all - many store owners across the EU have announced that they will not be selling GM products. And three large multinational corporations producing GM products - Unilever, Nestle, Cadburys-Schweppes were brought to trial.

The scandalous results of Dr. Puszhai's research reached the Russian "nutritionists", causing a flurry of epithets regarding the personality of Dr. Puszhai himself and even ... his appearance (see the interview of the academician-food scientist V. Tutelyan "Echo of Mosva"). However, none of them could somehow argue their indignation, let alone refute the results obtained by Dr. Pusztai.

So what is genetic engineering? Why does her “success” generate fear not only among the “greens”, but also among many prominent (alas, Western) scientists and even crown princes, whose statements cannot be explained by an attempt at self-promotion or lack of competence? Let's try to figure it out, but first let's take a short excursion into the history of genetic engineering (biotechnology).

EVERYTHING WILL BE WELL ... UNLESS THE GRASS RUNS OUT

There are sciences - supernatural - natural - unnatural.
L. D. Landau.


In 1865, the Augustinian monk Gregor Mendel (1822-1884) published the laws of heredity, which he deduced by observing peas. He argued that invisible, internal "units of information" or "factors" are inherited from one generation to the next. In the late sixties of the 19th century, the Swiss biologist Friedrich Miescher isolated a substance from pus-soaked bandages that he calls "nuclein" (the current substance of heredity - deoxyribonucleic acid or DNA).

In 1902-03. Walter Stanborough Sutton announced that Mendel's "factors" are localized precisely in the chromosomes. In 1909, the Dane Wilhelm Johannsen calls Mendel's "factors" "genes." The following year, Thomas Hunt Morgan determined the location of various Drosophila fly genes on the chromosomes.

In 1943, the Rockefeller Foundation embarked on a Green Revolution with the Mexican government. Norman Borlaf, deputy director of the Rockefeller Foundation, has indeed managed to raise wheat yields from 750 kilograms to 2.7 tons per hectare.

In 1951, Rosalind Franklin takes clear X-ray pictures of deoxyribonucleic acid. This allows James Watson and Francis Crick. and physics and a zealous fighter for peace is very strange - vitamins are "just" catalysts. The effectiveness of this "medicine" sucked from the finger has not yet been scientifically confirmed, but taken from the ceiling an impressive list of what this rather ordinary vitamin affects is impressive) decipher the structure of DNA and unravel the mechanism of transmission of parental genes to offspring. The research results were published in the journal Nature in 1953, and the researchers received the Nobel Prize.

Nevertheless, genetic engineering began to develop actively in 1970, when D. Baltimore, G. Temin and S. Mizutani simultaneously discovered and isolated in its pure form reverse transcriptase - an enzyme, the use of which greatly simplified the production of copies of single genes.

This discovery allowed P. Berg and his comrades to obtain a DNA molecule that included the entire set of genes of the oncogenic virus SV40, part of the genes of the bacteriophage and one of the genes of Escherichia coli, that is, a molecule that had not previously existed in nature!

For the introduction of genes into the cell, elements of bacteria are used - plasmids. These are small DNA molecules that reside not in the nucleus of the cell, but in its cytoplasm, and are able to invade the chromosome of a foreign bacterial cell and then leave it spontaneously or under any influence, appropriating the chromosomal genes of the host cell. The plasmids then reproduce, making multiple copies.

In 1973, scientists transplant DNA from one living organism to another - Stanley Cohen and Annie Chang (Stanford University) and Herbert Boyer combine the DNA of the virus and bacteria and "create" a ring with double resistance to antibiotics - this is how genetic engineering is born as an independent discipline.

The first transgenic plant was designed in 1983. Biologists inserted into the potato DNA molecule the gene of the Thuringian bacterium that produces a protein that is fatal to the Colorado potato beetle. At that time, it was naively believed that it did not affect other living organisms.

Thanks to these discoveries, it became possible to use genetic material almost like in a children's construction set; creating organisms with programmed properties. It is quite understandable that this gave rise to tremendous enthusiasm in the scientific community. I dreamed that a new era was about to begin - the era of biotechnology, when hereditary ailments surrender, and transgenic plants and animals would rapidly raise the efficiency of agriculture and finally solve the problem of hunger in the Third World countries. However, in reality, everything turned out to be not as simple as it seemed to many then.

For example, mutant poplars grown in Germany were not supposed to bloom. Yet they bloomed, plunging their creators into deep sadness - the unplanned effect was too clearly visible. But there are also so-called "dormant" genes, the action of which may appear many years later, when it will be impossible to stop the running mechanism.

Nevertheless, GI corporations are not at all worried about such lapses and they continue to impose their ideas with the persistence of Bulgakov's Rock from Fatal Eggs. He, as you know, undertook to save the country of the Soviets from the chicken epidemic (just as corporations are now contracting to save the world from hunger due to "overpopulation").Only the August frosts saved the country of the Soviets from the invasion of the giant reptiles bred by Rock, which, alas, cannot be expected to recur.

These fears are far from overcautious - the use of a mosaic viral activator - Cauliflower Mosaic Viral promotor (CaMV) can activate normally dormant viruses in the species into which it is implanted. It is known that CaMV is embedded in almost all GI cultures. The overactivity of genes dramatically increases the causality of cancer. Scientists conducting this study require that all transgenic crops containing CaMV 35S or similar activators should not be put into production and tested in open experimental fields (bees and other insects, along with pollen, carry mutilated genes).

Nowadays, many varieties of yeast cultures are genetically modified to speed up the fermentation process in the production of beer and bread. Studies of GI yeasts, which include genes responsible for glucose processing, have shown that they accumulate the mutagenic and highly toxic substance methylglyoxal. Thus, a dangerous by-product of yeast's vital activity is found in the final food products - beer, bread, that is, in almost all products in the production of which "Western" technologies are used. The word "western" in this case must be written in quotation marks, because in the EU countries themselves, food production technologies are used "for internal consumption."

This example shows that a product obtained with the help of genetically modified organisms (bacteria, yeast cultures or plants) can undergo dangerous changes, new or already known toxins can appear in their composition.

The problem is "small" - genes, as scientific studies have shown, do not work by themselves. They communicate with other genes and change their behavior depending on their influence. That is why the outcome of "stitching" the next fragment is absolutely unpredictable, even if the action of this fragment is studied thoroughly. In particular, the experiment on the enlargement of salmon ended very amusingly. Remember the obligatory newsreel before a film in Soviet cinemas? The salmon turned out to be huge and full-bodied, it is a pity that they could not be eaten, because the meat of the "modified" fish for some reason turned out to be ... green, "ecological" color. Today, the fish farmers of the Far East are silent, engineers are silent about biotechnology, for some reason they do not show off in front of the lenses of movie cameras with GI salmon in calloused hands.

According to the Center for Standardization and Certification of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, as of February 26, 2001, 81 names of mutant products are entered in the Russian Federal Register of Food Products. These are soy protein concentrates, soy flour, dietary fiber from soy, dry drink from the same soy, soy grits, soy special products for athletes, soy milk replacer, potatoes, corn (maize), etc. All these soy-corn-potato it is very difficult to call products plant food products, since they are made from animal plants. Incidentally, the EU countries boycott them in whole or in part (however, Russia is not the EU - see.

Chapters from the book "Caution! Harmful products", Nikitin Sergey, pseudonym - "Mikhail Efremov"

["Dessert" or what are the recommendations of the Institute of Nutrition of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences]

"Dessert" or what are the recommendations of the Institute of Nutrition of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences

Live broadcast - 20: 15-21: 00, (Moscow time), radio station "Echo of Moscow".
Academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Deputy Director of the Institute of Nutrition of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences Viktor Tutelyan and Academician of the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Director of the Center for Bioengineering of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor Konstantin Skryabin answer the questions of the hosts - Sergey Korzun, Marina Astvatsaturyan.
S. KORZUN: Today we are talking about transgenic plants and about genetic engineering in general. Constantine will, of course, defend plants and their modification. Try it.

K. SKRYABIN: Let's start by explaining what it is, what it is about.Indeed, nothing new is happening. We are not inventing anything new. Everything happens as it is in nature. In nature, there is a bacterium that can transfer a small piece of genetic information into plants. We just use it. But we use it wisely, because we create plants with the properties that we really need. And nothing more.

S. KORZUN: That is, all Michurins and Lysenks are no longer relevant, there is no need to grow year after year, carefully selecting seeds, different crops? It is enough to make a small change that is not visible to the naked eye - and everything is fine?

K. SKRYABIN: Let's not hang labels, but say about breeders. Indeed, breeders have been engaged in crossing for many decades and after that carefully, for many years, they have selected those necessary properties that are needed for economic purposes. And we can speed up exactly the same process. Therefore, you are absolutely right, we are engaged in classical breeding methods, but at the modern molecular level.

S. KORZUN: Victor, tell me, from the point of view of what appears on our table, are there really any changes?

V. TUTELYAN: I would like to add right away that even the breeders who acted in the traditional way, nevertheless, in order to accelerate these events, used a lot of tricks, up to the fact that they specially irradiated plants, seed material in order to create both it is possible to have more mutations and to increase this diversity from which this search could be found. This path is difficult and long. Now modern science, the modern level of genetic engineering allows this to be greatly accelerated (irradiation is still a process of accelerating mutation, and not the implantation of an animal gene into a plant, as is done in genetic engineering).

M. ASTVATSATURYAN: But probably no one knew about this, because there was no such universal noise that we are seeing now, at least in the West.

V. TUTELYAN: Yes, they did it quietly, there were technological approaches of the relevant breeders in the relevant scientific institutions. But this is a completely different matter. Konstantin Georgievich and I are on opposite sides of the barricades. Our task, first of all, is human safety and health.

S. KORZUN: Are they provided at the current level of development of transgenic engineering?

V. TUTELYAN: Yes, absolutely.

M. ASTVATSATURIAN: What do we have on the table now? Maybe we don’t know.

V. TUTELYAN: To date, two types of transgenic plants have been registered in the Russian Federation. The first is transgenic soy. The second type is transgenic potatoes (as well as corn, tomatoes, etc. Obviously, the nutritional academic does not have all the information). Soy is insensitive to a particular herbicide, which allows it to be grown with less wastage and less pesticide use. We, doctors, are very pleased that the residual amount of pesticides in this soybeans is much less.

S. KORZUN: That is, pesticides are used, but it is more resistant to them, therefore ...

V. TUTELYAN: They are used, but in much lower concentrations, so it does not accumulate in plants. Even at these low concentrations, it kills those weeds that need to be killed. And a transgenic potato that's insensitive to the Colorado potato beetle. Let me remind you that about 50% of potatoes are losses from the Colorado potato beetle, starting somewhere (!?) From Poland to the Urals (after all, the academician's awareness and accuracy in nutrition is amazing).

K. SKRYABIN: Can I comment on this figure? Russians eat somewhere (where exactly?) 35 million tons of potatoes. This is approximately $ 7 billion. We lose about 40% of potatoes from the Colorado potato beetle (all other losses "accidentally" fell into this vague figure - from not observing the rules of storage and transportation, etc.).

V. TUTELYAN: Sorry, I added 10 percent. Maybe in some 50 areas.

K. SKRYABIN: Well, depending on the year. These are practically IMF loans that Russia receives.The entire IMF loan is consumed by the Colorado potato beetle. But even this is not scary, but scary is that they are fighting with it with the help of chemistry. Since all potatoes are grown in small plots, about 80%, you can imagine what a horror it really is! Because God knows what is often used. I do not agree with Viktor Aleksandrovich that we are on opposite sides of the barricades. I am absolutely sure that new methods of genetic engineering are needed precisely in order to preserve our environment, precisely in order to help our ecology.

S. KORZUN: Okay, but what about taste? I imagine that even the Colorado potato beetle does not eat these potatoes, which we are going to feed our listeners with.

M. ASTVATSATURYAN: He doesn't eat leaves, Seryozha!

S. KORZUN: It doesn't matter. I have my own beliefs. I have to eat what I want to eat. I go to the store, I see an absolutely even tomato, I hope that there are no transgenic ones yet. It has no taste. At the same time, the barrel-shaped, which is plucked from the garden, has a taste. In fact, if about taste?

V. TUTELYAN: You have to pay for everything. And we must understand that, as they often say, only cheese in a mousetrap is free. It is right. Of course, creating new varieties that are convenient for us, we lose something. In particular, tomatoes grown in greenhouse conditions, of course, differ from soil ones in taste. For safety - no, for the content of nutrients - no.

K. SKRYABIN: And they are not genetically engineered.

V. TUTELYAN: Yes. But, of course, they differ in some properties. But they are safe, but they can be easily brought over long distances. This is a very important problem for us. But we move away from our conversation.

S. KORZUN: And we are returning to the same potatoes. Does its taste change?

V. TUTELYAN: No. But the most important thing I want to explain. Two things. The first issue is security. We are, after all, on opposite sides of the barricades, because we are obliged, and I do this strictly, to be an order of magnitude more careful in terms of conclusions and conclusions. For example, the identity of the chemical composition. Okay? Yes indeed. A convincing fact is that potatoes grown transgenically and potatoes grown under normal conditions, using the traditional method, are identical in chemical composition down to the smallest microcomponents. Is it enough from a medical point of view? I don't think so. In Russia, we have introduced additional tests into the assessment system that have not been used all over the world. We definitely carry out whole long-term expensive multilevel experiments to study the possibility of some toxic-logical changes, the appearance of minor components, and metabolic changes. God forbid that something changes, something may appear that cannot be caught. But this will manifest itself in experiments on animals, in experiments in the study of such subtle biochemical mechanisms. This is an indispensable component of the Russian safety assessment methodology.

M. ASTVATSATURYAN: But Western varieties are also tested for allergenicity. So far we have only talked about Western things.

V. TUTELYAN: Allergenicity is special. We study it in great detail.

S. KORZUN: Are there any examples? Have you already cut the wings of Mr. Scriabin's department in this sense?

V. TUTELYAN: Naturally. If these studies are carried out for a year and a half, these are very clipped wings, because he hoped to put the Russians on the table a year and a half ago, and this is true, this potato has already been tested on millions of Americans, Europeans and Canadians.

S. KORZUN: That's right, I see that Mr. Scriabin is sitting sadly.

V. TUTELYAN: But all the same, one and a half years are those studies, and, of course, Mr. Scriabin agrees with this, he participates in detailed studies in this direction. He is responsible for the medico-genetic safety assessment of these products. Officially, his institution and he is personally responsible for this section, very important, fundamentally important.

S. KORZUN: Konstantin, do you really agree?

K. SKRYABIN: Yes, of course.Why am I sitting sad? Because in Russia the truth is that today the cultivation of not a single transgenic plant is allowed. I want this to be remembered very carefully.

S. KORZUN: Who generally gives permission for this?

K. SKRYABIN: We have a law that was adopted in 1996, there is an interdepartmental commission, where all interested departments are represented. And since 1997, a large number of transgenic plants have been tested. Until now, no plant can be grown in Russia. Here are generally very interesting scissors. On the one hand, doctors have shown that they are absolutely safe (in this case, soybeans and potatoes, but which "doctors" are reasonably silent), and on the other hand, we have no right to grow these potatoes in Russia, we can only buy and import.

S. KORZUN: Are the bureaucrats obscured or what?

K. SKRYABIN: No, these are not bureaucrats. This is a very long-standing controversy and we agree with this controversy. You need to have public discussions, whether you need to have transgenic plants in Russia at all or not. I am sure that scientific data today after a thorough check ... I am not talking about all plants, I am talking only about those plants that are thoroughly tested for biosafety, for environmental safety. Whether these plants are needed in Russia or not, this is a political problem. Because in Europe, in America, and now in China, there is a boom in transgenic plants. And Russia is now discussing this. We have such a rich country that we can afford to discuss for many years whether we can lose 40% of potatoes or we cannot.

S. KORZUN: The royal family in Great Britain is also discussing.

K. SKRYABIN: Different levels of discussion.

M. ASTVATSATURYAN: Prince Charles is a well-known environmentalist, he fights for maximum closeness to nature (Prince Charles has led the fight against transgenic "food" for children).

V. TUTELYAN: You touched on the most delicate issue, even, perhaps, without understanding it. We already have a bitter experience that a child is thrown out together with dirty water, and we lose, I believe, we lose things criminally. We went through this in 1990-1991, when 10 factories producing 2 million tons of protein, microbiological synthesis, were closed due to the fact that there was an environmental problem, some factories had certain emissions.

M. ASTVATSATURIAN: Were these problems being solved?

V. TUTELYAN: Of course, they were technically solvable. And it was calculated that this problem could be solved with minimal economic investment. In the absence of any comments on the product itself. Interestingly, in terms of concentration of efforts, this is comparable to an atomic project, a space project. When the problem of the safety of this particular product, its prospects for feed purposes, was solved, we lost the feed base, we completely (?) Lost the poultry industry, part of livestock, without creating anything in return. Criminally!

S. KORZUN: Let's add our listeners. Now we will ask you something. In general, finish the phrase: "Genetically modified plants need to ..." promote or ban? If you end up promoting, your phone is 995-81-21. If you end up denying, the phone is 995-81-22. As far as I understand from the previous conversation, both of our guests are in favor of promoting genetically modified plants as a large feeder today. Correctly, if in one word?

V. TUTELYAN: Yes.

S. KORZUN: Why are they on opposite sides of the barricades? Well, it's clear: what's on the table and what's coming from the market here ...

M. ASTVATSATURYAN: Can I make a remark, a global announcement, to outline the global nature of the problem? On July 21-22, the G8 meeting will be held in Okinawa. At this meeting, it is planned to discuss the issue of holding a world forum on transgenic products. Probably, these people will speak "in one tune", but in fact there is a problem, there are issues that need to be discussed. No wonder, probably, at this level all pros and cons are weighed.Now it has reached a certain climax. Prior to that, separate opinions were expressed in the press. And one more message, the freshest. Today's Associated Press and yesterday's New York Times write on the same topic: seven different national academies, including the Royal Society of Britain (which does not exist in nature) and the US Academy of Sciences (which also does not exist in nature), joined forces and formulated several requirements. I read their report. In my opinion, the most important requirements are: firstly, 800 million people on earth are malnourished. In order to feed the developing world, to make it safe, it is imperative to check. And the most important thing, in my opinion, is to make sure that farmers in developing, poor countries avoid monopolization by leading manufacturing firms, and to do these safety studies and plant creation already, and there are a lot of them, on the basis of state institutions. Independent expertise, and the creators should be the so-called public institutions. Some documents are being formulated, and we, in fact, are now talking at the international level.

S. KORZUN: I foresee objections. All the promotion is due to the fact that the Americans who were the first to embark on this path have too much money.

K. SKRYABIN: This is not true.

M. ASTVATSATURYAN: By the way, were they the first to enter?

K. SKRYABIN: This is not true. I have to say that the question for the ricochet is incorrectly asked, because not just genetically modified plants, but genetically modified plants that are thoroughly tested for safety and registered by government agencies. This is what Academician Tutelian was talking about in the case of food. Here all the time there is confusion of concepts. There are many different genetically modified plants that are studied in laboratories. Nobody offers to sow them on the fields, it is forbidden, and in Russia too. We are talking only about those plants that have passed the most thorough inspection (all "thorough" inspection is reduced only in the "approvals" or in the "disapproval" of the nutrition official).

S. KORZUN: And the checks are contradictory. Here Marina slipped me magazines, I read. Horror! There is no effect in the fields, but in the laboratory, butterflies or caterpillars die. It is assumed that if rats require long-term consequences in a year, then for a person it is 10 years.

K. SKRYABIN: In each case, you need to look at the source. Unfortunately, journalists have a big problem here. There is one last example, which is related to bees. One very nice scientist in Germany has been studying bees for a long time and persistently. By the way, he told reporters that they are studying how bees behave on transgenic plants. Moreover, these bees never live on these plants in nature. But then the noise started. The scientist said, "I didn't say that."

M. ASTVATSATURYAN: No, this scientist said that “I did not make long-term forecasts, and I did not say that it was bad”. “This is a very rare event,” said the same scientist.

K. SKRYABIN: His surname is Kaats. On the basis of one journalistic program, there are a dozen articles by commentators. You are talking about scientific facts. We are in favor of a scientifically based risk assessment. We are in favor of promoting only those transgenic plants that, firstly, are needed and give very important results for our agriculture, and only those that are carefully registered and tested.

V. TUTELYAN: In my opinion, we are going into such a deep discussion ...

S. KORZUN: No, we are not going far.

V. TUTELYAN: And we are taking our listeners away. They just said that this is a problem of developing countries, 800 million hungry people. One of the problems is now the developed countries: rich America, prosperous Europe, Russia with our problems. But a common problem is the lack of micronutrients: vitamins, minerals, trace elements, individual amino acids. Whether rich or poor, the problem is now very acute: loss of health. How to get out? We face a dilemma all the time.You probably know this better than me, and even more so for the audience. On the one hand, there is less, because 55% of our population over 30 is overweight. On the other hand, there is more, because 70-100% are already deficient in vitamin C, 60-80% are vitamin B, 100% are deficient in selenium, 70% are deficient in iodine. What to do? We just entered into a confrontation with nature. It was in the last 50 years that we, having acquired goods - buttons on washing machines, on gas, electric stoves, television touch controls, etc. - began to move a little, energy consumption dropped dramatically. That's it, we went into confrontation with nature. How to make nature spur a little? One of the ways is to create products so that they contain the amount of necessary micronutrients that you and I need for our health (all the above figures and the reasons for the appearance of these are just the fantasies of a food academic).

S. KORZUN: Well, yes, I ate - and order. And you don't need to train and run in the morning.

V. TUTELYAN: It was like that before! We spent 3,500 kilocalories, 4 thousand soldiers of the tsarist army - a loaf of black bread, a pound of meat.

M. Astvatsaturyan: And now we are so nervous! We also spend energy.

V. TUTELYAN: This is all emotional energy. In fact, the energy consumption is small. We must go all the way: create products of a given quality, enrich them, biologically active additives, engage in physical education and spur the evolution of nature a little. This is the future. But back to today, what worries each of us. On July 1, the Chief Sanitary Doctor of the Russian Federation, First Deputy Minister Gennady Grigorievich Onishchenko, he spoke repeatedly on your radio, a decree was signed to introduce mandatory labeling, indicating that this is a genetically modified source or contains a component from a genetically modified source. This should worry each of us now

S. KORZUN: Excuse me, I will interrupt. I will summarize the question we asked. In just 5 minutes, 593 people called. How do you think our listeners responded? For what more - for promoting or for banning?

K. SKRYABIN: I'm sure what to promote.

V. TUTELYAN: Me too.

S. KORZUN: In general, I have never seen such round numbers. As from the very beginning it became 50-50, so it held on to the very end, no matter how many votes were added. Exactly 50 to 50. You smile. This is a good result, I guess. You were hoping for the best for you, but ...

K. SKRYABIN: I am sure that this is a result that reflects our shortcomings as propagandists of knowledge. Now it is very important that we clarify more and more to people. Because we work for people. This is their decision. If there was a poll - 10 for, and 90 against, then ...

M. ASTVATSATURYAN: Then you just have to leave work.

K. SKRYABIN: No, you don't need to leave work. We just talked about the fact that there is a problem in the royal family of Great Britain - part of the family "for" part of the family "against" (there is no part "for"). In any case, there is no material indicating that the "part" of the royal family is "for" transgenes). But at the same time, I'll tell you now, this is the BBC news of March 17, 2000. At the same time, the UK government is opening and providing 30 new testing sites for genetically modified plants (to hush up the scandal that followed the publication of Dr. Pusztai's research and to identify the harm of tragens to the human body). That is, the discussion is going on, but we cannot conduct this discussion without checking, without working, without making new experiments (in England there is no "Government of Great Britain", but there is the Government of Her Majesty - these are not petty quibbles, but sloppiness in words indicates on the attitude to the subject of the conversation).

S. KORZUN: But nobody forbids us either.

K. SKRYABIN: No, we are forbidden! In Russia, not a single transgenic plant is allowed for use (officially - yes, in practice - please).This is practically the only country in the world! Today 400 million hectares, two territories in the UK, are planted with transgenic plants around the world. In Russia - zero.

S. KORZUN: Maybe it's just being careful, as with mobile phones? There is also a shortage of them. There was a lack of such telephone lines - they introduced mobile ones. In fact, it is not known whether it works or does not work, but they decided that small children are better ...

M. ASTVATSATURYAN: According to the latest data, it does not seem to work.

V. TUTELYAN: You cannot step on the same rake. Nothing can be prohibited. It is necessary to control, it is necessary to improve the general culture and production. These are high technologies. Along the entire chain from the field to the consumer, there must be a sufficiently high culture of both production and consumption.

M. ASTVATSATURYAN: Someone allows trials, and someone comes and uproots these plantings.

K. SKRYABIN: I want to tell those 50% of radio listeners who voted not to allow. Please know that today in Russia there are more than 70 commissions that carefully monitor every genetic engineering experiment in every institute; that today there is a huge team, more than 200 people, which analyzes each result and reports on these results to the interdepartmental commission that meets. Thorough analysis! I am not saying that the food safety that Academician Tutelian spoke about is generally fantastic! If you asked me what kind of food I advise my children and my granddaughter to eat, then, of course, only genetically engineered products, because nothing in Russia is tested so thoroughly in terms of food as genetically engineered products. The issue here is not scientific, not security, I assure you, but an economic and political issue.

V. TUTELYAN: It's the same in the world. I met with my old friend, he heads the food safety service in the European Economic Community, there is such a D-24 department. I asked him directly: "Tell me, please, Mr. Professor Somadi, is there any scientific prerequisite for Europe's position on this issue?" Not. He said directly and frankly that this was a purely economic, purely political issue. You can't lag behind. In what I support, although on different sides of the barricades ...

S. KORZUN: On different sides of the dining table, we will say this.

V. TUTELYAN: ... Scriabin - that we must not lag behind. Otherwise, we will lose much more precisely from the point of view of the health of the nation. We have already gone through this, you cannot do this. But let's go back all the same ...

S. KORZUN: About product labeling? Finally, I will only ask: do you yourself calmly eat transgenic foods?

V. TUTELYAN: Of course. Absolutely calm.

S. KORZUN: At the same time, you look very good, I must say!

V. TUTELYAN: I would like to say the following. This is even beyond the scope of our topic today. I, a consumer, came to the store, I liked the product, I want to buy such and such a product, let's say a dairy product. Based on my tastes, traditions, I chose such and such a product. I took up this packaging. What should I pay attention to as a consumer? The first and what is fundamentally important, I have to talk about it and demand everywhere: the expiration date. The most important indicator of product safety. If it comes to an end, this product should be left. If it is already over, then you need to ring all the bells and force ...

M. ASTVATSATURYAN:… the head of the store should eat this product.

V. TUTELYAN: Well, why eat it? To get him out of sales. The second thing that is important is the composition of those absolutely safe and, as it were, passing by: proteins, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins. This is what is very disturbing, on the one hand, our health. I, frankly, will not look at whether there are food additives E150, E320. I trust professionals. If they allowed it, then it is absolutely safe for me and for future generations. And I will not look to see if there is a GMI badge, that is, a genetically modified source ...

M. ASTVATSATURYAN: Will it be called that in our country?

V. TUTELYAN: Yes.But I respect the consumer's rights, I respect the consumer rights law that we have adopted, where it is written in black and white that every consumer, every citizen has the right to know what he buys in a store. If there are any new technologies, they should be reflected.

S. KORZUN: So you, in principle, support this decision on labeling?

V. TUTELYAN: Yes. I participated in its creation. That's right. But I will not use this right, just for fun. But it is very important here, and I want to emphasize this once again. This has nothing to do with security. Neither food additives - E150, E320, nor the fact that there will be a GMI badge, has nothing to do with safety. This security is laid down at the level when they are allowed to be used. There - yes, there is security. Here, this is just information so that you know, and your right to choose whether to take this or take another product. But we must be very careful about the fact that this will be used for selfish purposes and play on it. And this is done. Absolutely stupid name: Organic Food. That's bullshit! There are no such products. There are products that meet sanitary standards and do not. Anything that fits is safe for us and for our future generations. On the contrary, they are somehow cultivated, created, special badges are invented. Just to get extra money from us. Whether it is worth paying for it or not, that is the question.

M. ASTVATSATURYAN: Will we pay extra money for the labeling?

S. KORZUN: I think not. Konstantin, how do you feel about labeling?

K. SKRYABIN: My attitude is very similar to what we have just heard. I believe that this marking does not carry any information, in fact. I repeat that foods derived from genetically modified sources are no different from conventional foods. Therefore, this badge is just a decoration. If it is beautiful aesthetically, then it is good that it was. But from my point of view, I absolutely agree with information for the consumer, in the sense of safety ... The products that are allowed for sale are absolutely safe, because they are checked by experts. But I want to say one more thing. Now in Russia we have a very serious question. Russia cannot be a great power if it does not have great biotechnology. We are with you in the 21st century. The 21st century is the age of biotechnology. The Chinese understood this. Pay attention to what the Chinese are doing now (by hook or by crook they populate Siberia and the Far East - the Chinese are fleeing from the "oasis of prosperity"). The Chinese have joined the Human Genome Project. You know that at some last Chinese festival in the main square, the first sculpture that was brought out in front of a crowd of people was a double-helix model of DNA. This is the national symbol of China now (outright nonsense).

M. ASTVATSATURYAN: Well, there are many of them, that's understandable.

K. SKRYABIN: One second. There are also many of us, we are a great agrarian country. If we do not apply new methods, safe methods, then we will go into the 20th century. And we must go forward.

S. KORZUN: I understand, Konstantin, push your patriotic streak. And you'd better be on the mind of a simple ... They talked about potatoes. That will give, for example, on a Moscow personal plot to sow their one and a half to two hundred square meters, which are available, with transgenic potatoes, protected from the Colorado potato beetle.

K. SKRYABIN: Not only from the Colorado potato beetle. We have now, this is done at our institute, potatoes that protect themselves from a viral infection.

S. KORZUN: From flu, from hepatitis B?

K. SKRYABIN: No, there are potato viruses. Your potatoes are poorly stored in winter because they are infected with viruses. You have a small potato crop because it is infected with viruses.

S. KORZUN: Yes, there are nitrates and nitrites.

K. SKRYABIN: No, not that. There won't be any, because you will have a potato that protects itself from a viral infection (again deception - nitrates are formed in all cultures as a result of photosynthesis, this is, for the most part, a natural process. In addition, nitrates themselves are harmless, dangerous nitrites, which are already formed in the human body itself). You don't have to either spray with insecticides or crawl around and collect these bugs in a jar, which people do. And the third thing - you will have a potato that protects itself from fungal and bacterial infections. You don't have to handle it.It won't rot, it doesn't need to be chemically treated, and it will give you a significantly higher yield. This is a fantastic result! Super potatoes. And this is the second bread for Russia. I can give you the same example for sugar beet, the same example for another whole series - for corn, and so on.

M. Astvatsaturyan: But this is technology. There is a banana with a vaccine against, it seems, malaria, there are tomatoes with a high content of vitamin A. (By the way, thanks to experiments with bananas, they are an endangered species. According to some estimates, in 5-8 years they will remain only in the memory of earthlings)

K. SKRYABIN: No, we are discussing very simple things now. We are now discussing what is really important for Russia. It would be a crime, like the fact that we ruined the protein industry, if we do not now make a decision absolutely proven, used in many countries ... Two territories of Great Britain are completely plowed up, and these plants are grown! And Russia is waiting for something. This is bad. (especially bad is that this is again a false statement - well, where are these "two territories of Great Britain"?)

S. KORZUN: Good. Let's say we have convinced our listeners, have convinced ourselves in the first place and them in the second place, that we are lagging behind, and so on. When it will be? Where?

K. SKRYABIN: At least tomorrow.

S. KORZUN: Can I contact you at the Institute of Biotechnology and take seedlings?

K. SKRYABIN: No, I will not give it, because it is prohibited by Russian law. Until this variety is in the register of varieties of the Russian Federation, it cannot be used. And we, the people who invented this whole thing, the companies that are ready to provide it, are all waiting for a decision, a political decision, to allow these transgenic plants to be grown in Russia.

S. KORZUN: Who does it depend on? From Viktor Alexandrovich?

K. SKRYABIN: No. Now we are basically waiting for the results of the ecological expertise (Academician of the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Director of the Center for Bioengineering of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor Konstantin Skryabin is waiting for "the results of the ecological expertise", but for now the essence and the matter asserts that transgenes are completely harmless and even useful! And we are discussing with our fellow environmentalists. I have always said that this should be a decision of the whole society, there should be agreement between molecular biologists, between genetic engineers, between ecologists, between sociologists and between people who are engaged in agriculture. This should be the decision of our citizens.

S. KORZUN: Then wait a long time. The two chambers cannot agree in any way, but here ...

K. SKRYABIN: Now the interdepartmental commission has received letters from regional ministers (in Russia there are "regional" ministries?) Or deputy ministers of agriculture about potatoes, in my opinion, from six regions of Russia, which require immediate registration. I think that after this year, when 40% of potatoes die again, almost every regional minister will write a letter. This is the voice of those people who are engaged in agriculture every day. And then such a decision will be made. I am sure about that. Or we will go back to the cave with the torches and talk about some kind of "environmentally friendly technology", as Viktor Aleksandrovich said, and so on. I really don't understand what that means.

S. KORZUN: Well, two respected academicians defended the absolute safety of genetically modified plants in front of microphones.

K. SKRYABIN: Registered.

V. TUTELYAN: And those who have passed the full cycle of tests, including in Russia.

S. KORZUN: Well, we'll wait. On the air of the radio station "Echo of Moscow" was the academician of the Russian Academy of Agricultural Sciences, director of the center "Bioengineering" of the Russian Academy of Sciences, professor Konstantin Skryabin and academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, deputy director of the Institute of Nutrition of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences Viktor Tutelyan.

[The right watermelon]

The right watermelon

Adults and children love watermelon. And it is not in vain - this is a valuable food product containing a significant amount of nutrients. This is a dietetic product recommended in medical nutrition.Watermelon is simply delicious and perfectly removes thirst on a hot day. But is it worth giving it to children? Of course it is. Only on condition that this watermelon is ripe, whole and not stuffed with nitrates. In order not to harm the child, you need to know where, how and when you can buy watermelons.
Ekaterina Pyrieva
pediatrician, Ph.D., Department of Nutrition for Children and Adolescents Russian Medical Academy of Postgraduate Education
Watermelon charms
Watermelon attracts not only with its taste. It is rich in easily digestible sugars, mainly fructose, trace elements (magnesium, potassium, etc.), pectin substances. There is a lot of folic acid in watermelon - 150 g of the fruit is enough to meet the daily requirement for this vitamin. A distinctive property of watermelon is its low calorie content: 100 g of the edible part of the fruit contains only 27 kilocalories.

The pulp of the unique berry quenches thirst well. In the heat, we lose not only water with sweat, but also a number of trace elements, therefore it is valuable that watermelon, unlike many drinks, compensates for our losses in liquid and trace elements, increases the body's resistance to hot weather. The presence of a large amount of fiber in watermelon helps the intestines to function properly and improves digestion. The fiber in the watermelon is delicate, so it works very delicately.

And one more useful substance provides us with watermelon. We are talking about lycopene - a natural antioxidant, a representative of a large group of substances that are mainly found in plant products and are known for their antitumor effect.

A good watermelon is a valuable dietary product that can be recommended to people of any age. It is a diuretic and choleretic agent, has a healing effect in diseases of the liver, gallbladder, kidneys and urinary tract. Delicate fiber and low acidity allows those who suffer from gastritis (inflammation of the gastric mucosa), gastroduodenitis (inflammation of the gastric mucosa and duodenum) to consume watermelons.
Where did bad watermelons come from?
Recently, attitudes towards watermelon have changed somewhat. This alertness, I must say, is not unfounded. Improper storage conditions and violation of trade rules can make a watermelon hazardous to health. Experts say that the first thing to be feared is roadside watermelon collapses, where substandard goods or goods rejected by trade and sanitary inspectors flock. According to the rules, roadside trade in melons and gourds is generally prohibited, and goods from such points should be withdrawn. A few hours are enough for watermelons to absorb heavy metals contained in car exhaust.

According to the rules, the place of trade must be fenced off, be under a canopy. Place the watermelons on the trays, not heap them on the ground. Dirt and pathogens can penetrate into carelessly thrown watermelons through microcracks.

The seller must have a permit from the sanitary-epidemiological station (SES) for trade and a medical book. Finally, a certificate of compliance of the sold product with the requirements of the standard is required.

After reviewing the certificate, you can verify the origin of the watermelon. In addition, the certificate controls the content of mineral fertilizers, the amount of radiation, heavy metals, etc. If a photocopy is made of the certificate, you should pay attention to the print, which must be in color. If the seal is black, the certificate is forged.
No windows, no doors. The room is full of nitrates
Watermelon, like all melons, is a very grateful plant. Under certain conditions, in one season, you can manage to collect more than one crop of these berries. But "intensive" farming, the desire to achieve a quick harvest, the largest possible fruits, as well as violations of the rules of transportation, storage and trade turn the dietary product into a source of trouble.

To make the watermelon ripen faster and gain weight, craftsmen overfeed it with fertilizers, mainly nitrogen - nitrates (nitric acid salts: sodium, potassium, ammonium, calcium nitrate). The introduction of nitrates into the soil is accompanied by their accumulation in the pulp of the plant. Lack of sun and an abundance of moisture contribute to the accumulation of nitrates. Nitrates themselves are not very toxic, but they are precursors of N-nitroso compounds that have the ability to cause cancer and nitrites. The conversion of nitrates to nitrites occurs in the gastrointestinal tract with the participation of microflora. Some more of them enter the body ready-made: some of the nitrates already in the watermelon are converted into nitrite, which is facilitated by high humidity. With an increase in the shelf life, the content of nitrites in watermelon increases several times. Nitrites, unlike nitrates, are toxic compounds. They disrupt the transport function of blood, affecting hemoglobin - the oxygen carrier to tissues. Hypoxia occurs - oxygen starvation of tissues, which is especially difficult for children, as well as those who suffer from diseases of the cardiovascular, respiratory, excretory systems.
Cleanliness is the key to health
Often we ourselves are the cause of the unpleasant consequences of eating watermelons. Particles of soil, dust, and various microorganisms remain on the peel of a watermelon, therefore, a poorly washed fruit can cause an intestinal infection. You should not buy watermelons with damaged rind or already cut. Bacteria multiply rapidly on the sweet surface of the damaged fruit in the presence of air (even a small wound is enough), and when eating such a watermelon, gastrointestinal disorders may occur. In addition, watermelon is often not eaten immediately and is kept cut at room temperature. Under these conditions, microorganisms also begin to multiply on the surface of the fetus.
Trouble from watermelon
Unfortunately, today no one can guarantee the good quality of a watermelon 100 percent, except when you personally raised it. Since the consequences of eating a poor-quality product are very serious, you should not offer it to children under 2 years of age. The younger the child, the less protected his body from adverse effects - microbes, nitrates, toxins, the more severe the consequences can be. For older children, it is advisable to offer watermelon during its natural ripening period - at the end of August, in autumn. By this time, watermelons are already ripening without fertilizers, and their taste during this period is much higher. For a kid 2-3 years old, 80-100 g of watermelon is enough, for a child 3-6 years old - 100-150 g.

Poor quality watermelon can cause gastrointestinal upset. The time of their appearance ranges from 1-2 hours to 1-2 days after consuming the product. The younger the child is, the earlier they can occur. External manifestations of disorders: weakness, lethargy, headache, fever, paroxysmal abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, upset stools, which can lead to dehydration.

Depending on the amount of a harmful agent that has entered the body, on age and individual resistance, the disease can proceed in different forms.

In a mild form, weakness, lethargy, nausea, 1-2 times vomiting and (or) 1-2 times liquefied stools are observed. Severe disorders in the work of organs and systems are accompanied by pronounced weakness, headache, high fever, repeated vomiting and liquefied stools, leading to dehydration.

The child needs help before the doctor arrives. The main goal is to give the baby as much water as possible and thereby reduce the manifestations of the disease. Frequent fractional drinking is necessary. When vomiting, the child is drunk with a teaspoon and even a pipette.It is better to add REGYDRON, GASTROLIT, ENTERODEZ to your drink - specialized formulations to restore the loss of not only liquid, but also salts. Used drugs that can attract harmful substances and remove them from the body (sorbents) - SMEKTA, ENTEROSGEL, POLIFEPAM.

In case of abdominal pain, it is necessary to give drugs that relieve intestinal spasm - NO-SHPU, PAPAVERIN, but not in any case painkillers (analgesics), such as analgin. It should be remembered that under the mask of poisoning, surgical pathology can often lurk, for example, appendicitis - an inflammation of the appendix. Taking analgesics can mask the signs of appendicitis, while the pathological process will develop gradually. An untimely diagnosis is fraught with serious complications and can be costly for the child's health.

After a qualified examination, the pediatrician will prescribe the necessary therapy.

In severe cases of the disease, the child may require systematic medical supervision and assistance in a hospital setting.
Tips for watermelon eaters
So how? Have you stopped loving watermelons yet? Well, right. And to avoid the troubles caused by their use, heed the advice of a specialist.

Before you cut the watermelon, do not forget to wash it thoroughly with warm water and soap.

Store the cut watermelon only in the refrigerator.

Nitrates accumulate unevenly in different parts of the plant. Studies show that in watermelons, the flesh is most poisonous near the rind, which is about 3 cm thick, so it is better to offer the child the part that is closer to the core.

When enjoying your favorite product, know when to stop. Proportionate the amount of watermelon and the age of the child.
Watermelon is a valuable and tasty product that can bring real pleasure. But only if it is properly grown, properly stored, properly sold and properly eaten.
How to store watermelon properly
Watermelons can be kept fresh for a long time. With proper storage, it can decorate the table not only for the New Year, but even on March 8. To do this, you should buy a watermelon in the fall weighing no more than 4 kg with a dry tail. It is desirable that the yellow spot on the side is as small as possible. Wash, dry, place the watermelon in a net and hang in a cool dark place, preferably in a cellar, at a temperature not higher than +5 C so that it does not touch anything. You can, of course, do with a dark closet in the apartment, but in this case, the watermelon can only survive until the end of the year.
How to choose a watermelon. Learning to choose watermelons!
For a watermelon to bring joy and pleasure, one must remember: the best time to buy a watermelon in Russia is the end of summer and autumn.

Watermelon should be purchased in places specially designated for trade, in stores, and not in spontaneous markets.

From watermelons of the same variety and one batch, it is better to choose a large, but not giant watermelon. The larger and at the same time lighter the watermelon, the more ripe it is. When choosing watermelons, you should avoid too small and too large.

A dry tail is a sign of ripeness. When ripe, the watermelon first of all "disconnects" from the melon - its tail dries up. Then the pigment chlorophyll, which is no longer necessary for it, ceases to be produced, which catches sunlight and ensures respiration and development of plants, and under the influence of light, light spots appear. This is a sure sign that the watermelon is ripe.

The light spot on the side of the watermelon should be as yellow as possible, even orange.

The striped crust should be as contrasting as possible.

A ripe watermelon is necessarily covered with a hard shiny crust, which is difficult to pierce with a fingernail, and all because, having "broken" with melon, the watermelon is no longer able to absorb moisture and its rind hardens. But if the nail easily pierces the watermelon skin, then the fruit is raw, unripe. You can also rub the crust and smell: the smell of freshly cut grass also speaks of substandardness.

A ripe watermelon always bounces when hit and sometimes resonates when tapped.If you knock on it, you hear not a dull sound, but a clear, sonorous sound.

You can put the watermelon to your ear and squeeze it with your hands as hard as you can. In ripe berries, the peel will slightly bend and crackle.

... To check the ripeness of a watermelon, it is thrown into the water, it floats up - it means ripe.

Watermelon is a bisexual berry. In a "male" individual, the bottom of the berry is convex, and the circle on it is small. For "girls" the bottom is flatter, and the circle is wide. "Girls" are considered tastier: they have fewer seeds and more sugar.
SOS signals. Nitrate watermelon.
If a watermelon is "overfed" with nitrates, he himself signals this to us, demonstrating the following signs:

intense red color of the flesh with a slight purple tint;

the fibers that go from the core to the crust are not white, as expected, but with all shades of yellow;

the "wrong" watermelon has a smooth, glossy cut surface, while in the "right" watermelon it sparkles with grains;

Mash a piece of watermelon pulp in a glass of water. If the watermelon is good, the water will simply become cloudy. If the watermelon is "bad," the water will turn red or pink.
Early products usually contain more nitrates than in late summer or autumn. Although this depends not only on the season, but also on watering and on growing conditions. The permissible norm of nitrates in watermelons is 60 mg per 1 kg.

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[Lethal food in Ukrainian]

Lethal food in Ukrainian

Irina LOMEIKO, April 12, 11:26

Pink sausages, green apples and snow-white cottage cheese on the shelves of Ukrainian supermarkets cause involuntary salivation among customers, and their hands reach out for their wallets. At the same time, few people think about what a "riot of colors" is nothing more than chemical technologies that can seriously harm health.

How often have you thought about where the unsold products from the store shelves go? Employees of enterprises and retail outlets convince consumers that after the expiration date the products are destroyed. No matter how it is. A resident of Zaporozhye got a job in a store, traded products of one of the Ukrainian poultry farms. A couple of days later, I noticed how small sores appeared on her hands. She drew attention to the hands of the loaders who brought her "chicken" goods: all the guys had wounds on their hands. The movers "delighted" her with the story that even gloves do not help from these wounds, the skin corrodes instantly. In production, chicken products were soaked in a chemical solution to preserve them better. The same solution gave the "dead" product a fresh look. After processing, chicken carcasses were treated with carrot and onion broth or dyed with dyes. These and other color stabilizers are now officially allowed, although previously "tinted" products were considered fake.

From time to time we hear that sausages, wieners and boiled sausages are not made from meat at all, but from dyed toilet paper. This statement is only partly true - toilet paper is a very expensive ingredient, soy and starch are used instead. According to regularly conducted examinations, in domestic sausages, the meat content does not exceed 2-5%, at worst - there is no meat in them at all, it is replaced by many far from useful substances, especially toxic for children, pregnant women and lactating. Thanks to the development of technologies, some enterprises in Russia and Ukraine have learned to use the so-called "biomass" - a protein obtained as a result of oil refining using microorganisms. The liquid mass is injected into a sausage casing, boiled, fried and cooled. An analogue of ready-made sausage mince in taste, smell, appearance, structure does not differ at all from a natural product.

In addition to artificial meat products, craftsmen have learned to make artificial milk and dairy products, cereals, pasta, "potato" chips, "berry" and "fruit" products, "nut" pastes for confectionery, similar to oysters and even black granular caviar. In particular, sometimes on cans with artificial condensed "milk" they write the name not "Condensed milk", but "Condensed milk".By the way, Chinese craftsmen have already learned how to create artificial chicken eggs, indistinguishable from real ones. Fakes are very similar to "natural product", they have shells, yolk and white. But when you cook them, you can smell the chemicals, and their shells are more fragile than real chicken eggs. In addition, when a chemical "egg" is fried, the protein will form much more bubbles than the natural product. They are made from gelatin, soda benzoate, lactone, carboxymethyl cellulose, calcium carbide, lysine and other chemical-organic compounds.

Have you ever noticed that on store shelves some fruits, in particular apples, can lie for weeks without spoiling? For better preservation during transportation and storage, they are covered with a thin layer of paraffin or wax with impurities of harmful aromatic hydrocarbons. It is he who gives such a beautiful gloss to imported apples. If the apple just removed from the tree is covered with the thinnest layer of paraffin, then such a wax bloom will allow the apple to be stored for up to 2 years! It is impossible to wash off the paraffin or wax by simply rinsing the apple with tap water. You need hot water and a brush, which you need to very carefully scrub the fruit from the wax. Rumor has it that exotic fruits that have not reached their ripeness color are dyed. In order to preserve them better, they are placed in chambers with formalin (a substance that is used in morgues to preserve corpses). One wholesale company that deals with citrus fruits laughed when they heard this story. "Nothing like this can be, fruits are stored in ordinary vegetable chambers of the Soviet Union times. If fruits are processed with anything, then they are still on plantations. This treatment is like an inoculation against" fruit diseases ". But it does not harm human health."

Ever wondered why milk in a cistern, barrel or can does not turn sour during the day in the scorching sun? The recipe for "immortality" is simple: villagers often throw antibiotics, soda and even washing powder into the milk tank! Moreover, soda and powder are measured in kilograms. In addition, a large part of the livestock population suffers from tuberculosis, leukemia, mastitis and other diseases. It is very dangerous to eat milk from sick cows. In developed countries, it is simply not accepted for processing. And in the villages of our country, the veterinary control system exists only nominally. Such "additives" lead to adaptation of the population to antibiotics - as a result, the body will acquire resistance to these drugs. And, therefore, even the simplest influenza virus, due to the rejection of antibiotics, can turn out to be deadly.

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almost all of the above can be seen in a 2-part ORT film "Beware of food!" !!!

about films: 🔗

🔗 part 1
🔗 part 2

Hmmm ....
I live in the countryside. My friend has an incubator. This year, in 3 months, she laid 120 goose eggs in it. Of these, 25 goslings hatched. She has not had anything like this before. The gosling develops normally, but in the second half of the term, it begins to slowly fade away, and is already beginning to peck the shell, but it does not have enough strength for this. She was looking for a reason - it turned out to be tap water, with which she sprayed eggs, starting from 10 days. When she began to use purified water, 10 healthy goslings hatched from 10 eggs.
Here is the water in our taps.

[Wanderer]

Yes, apparently, the article against Cola is ordered!
Of course, there is harm from cola (and why is there no harm now?, But not as much as described in the article.
I kept the cola in the electric kettle for about 5 days, the spiral remained in place (I thought the fate of the steak described in the article awaited it), no, it did not disappear anywhere, and the plaque did not completely disappear, somewhere only half the plaque came down and that's it, did not want to leave further.

Wanderer, your logic is normal - if the scale has disappeared only half, then there is no harm and the article is custom-made, so you don't feel sorry for half of your own stomach? but if it were whole, then it's another matter

[The "fish" fillet sold in stores is half water - RG]

The "fish" fillet sold in stores is half water - RG

MOSCOW, July 31 - RIA Novosti.
The test purchase of fish fillets by Rosrybolovstvo and Rossiyskaya Gazeta showed monstrous results - a Russian buyer in five cases out of seven gets something that he pays for. In beautiful bags on the shelves, fish processing waste, abundantly covered with ice and chemical reagents that retain water, are everywhere, Rossiyskaya Gazeta writes on Friday.
The purchases were carried out in well-known chain stores of "federal significance".

The conclusions of the examination are disappointing. "Perch portioned" in fact turns out to be trimmings of pollock or pangassius - an omnivorous relative of the catfish, which the Vietnamese grow in the murky waters of their Mekong. The same trimmings are hidden in bright packaging under the name "Cod portioned". It's just "Cod" in a plastic bag - just pollock fillets.

The names of the companies that have achieved the most "outstanding" results in the field of deceiving buyers are known to the Federal Agency for Fishery. The head of the fish department, Andrei Krainy, told a newspaper reporter that, having "an evidence base" in his hands, he intends to seriously tackle this problem.

The quality of fish on the shelves is not within the competence of the Federal Agency for Fishery. However, this unclean business, according to Krainy, among other things, also "inhibits coastal fish processing", for the development of which the Federal Agency for Fishery has allocated money from the federal budget.
Far Eastern fishmongers say their factories are operating at only 40% capacity. The reason is there is no sales. The Chinese product replaces high-quality fillets with its price.

It is almost useless for a conscientious enterprise to compete with counterfeiters, says the director of one of the fish processing companies in the European part of the country. The businessman provided an analysis of the prices of fake and normal fish. The perch carcass, from which the fillet is made, costs at least 130 rubles per kilogram. Throw away the skin, bones - half will remain. Therefore, the entrepreneur claims, perch fillets cannot be sold for less than 270 rubles per kilogram.

But pollock trimmings under the guise of "portioned perch" are already on the counter sold for 141 rubles 83 kopecks. The buyer usually chooses a cheaper product. But after defrosting, he discovers that small pieces of fish float in a large puddle of water, moreover, they are not very edible.

Such products from China are supplied only to Russia. “Because by order of the Europeans, an excellent product is prepared from the same raw materials at the same Chinese fish processing factories. European laws do not allow selling ice under the guise of fish and pollock trimming under the guise of perch," the newspaper emphasizes.

In Russia, GOST is strict only for domestic producers. They are forbidden to freeze more than 4% ice on fish. And on the imported fillet there can be at least a whole iceberg: it is subject to another GOST, in which there are no restrictions on the percentage of glaze. The requirements for the content of polyphosphates, water-retaining chemical additives, also differ, the newspaper reports.

The newspaper cites one of the results of the analyzes: out of 55 samples purchased in Moscow stores, only five fit into the requirements of GOST on the mass fraction of glaze for domestic fillets. It was, by the way, Norwegian salmon and tuna fillets from Indonesia and Taiwan, reports RG.

But in the "cod fillet" produced in Dmitrov near Moscow, the glaze was 39.3%. In the "sea bass fillet", on which the manufacturer - China was honestly named - was 40% ice. The champion in terms of water content was pollock fillet, allegedly produced in Russia, which contained 46% water, as well as 11 grams of phosphate per kilogram of weight. It is simply impossible to freeze so much ice on poor pollock without chemistry, said fish processors who are already trying to reproduce Chinese experiments with water and fish in our country.

"The matter will probably end up in the end with the state deeming it necessary not only to patronize the fish trade, not only to deliver it across the country, but also to go out to sea, to fish," RG writes.

On the basis of the Arkhangelsk trawl fleet, a joint-stock company with one hundred percent state capital is already being created, the newspaper reminds.

And here I bought a fillet of telapia and ... after defrosting, I found fish there, and quite decent. For the first time. And I just didn't understand how to choose frozen fish? I didn't seem to see the Made in Shin inscription on the fish ...

Very good topic ...
I don’t buy frozen fish in principle, like a person who grew up on Akhtuba (such a river in the Astrakhan region) I just know what good fish is.
A friend bought frozen "perch fillet" at the supermarket. It turned out to be soooo ... We didn't even understand WHAT IT IS !? We returned to the store, we thought that we would now prove our case for a long time and persistently. BUT! The money was returned quickly, quickly, so that we did not raise a cry. They know they are selling rubbish.

Yesterday I watched a program about the most harmful product. AWESOME !. They also included fish shavings from the industry. manufacturing. Better to take care of your health.

For a long time I have been thinking about what they sell in our country under the guise of food. Everything, almost everything that we sell is essentially dangerous, or at least not useful. Maybe only except for salt and sugar. And even then I'm not sure. I think the main problem is in our power-holding servants of the people. None of them, who is responsible for what gets to our table, does not think about the people, he is worried about the kickback that he will receive by letting another surrogate enter our market. If you wish, you can block access to the country for all low-quality products, but no one except us, ordinary consumers, needs this.
Only in our country, officially, meat can be called that muck from bones and other wastes supplied from China for the production of sausages. Only in our country they called and still call powder diluted with water, no matter how Mr. Onishchenko grimaces and kicks himself in the chest with his heel. Examples are innumerable ... And what songs the government sings about support for farming, about support for domestic producers. Yes, they are simply destroyed. The markets sell fruits and vegetables from all over the world except Russia. Even potatoes from Israel ...
Well, honestly, it's so painful, I don't even want to write, you can describe all this horror until morning. In the family, we have long given up on any semi-finished products, sausages, drinks.
We make sausage ourselves, bake bread, soon I'm afraid I'll have to keep chickens for the sake of noodles and eggs

here, I have already escaped from a big city to a smaller one - geese, goats, ducks, rabbits.
And how they calm the nerves.

[pay attention to the shelf life of the milk, and their appearance.]

I'm telling ...

I bought sour cream and cottage cheese ...
One sour cream just didn't like the taste, the other decided to age a little.
I also decided to age the cottage cheese a little.
I put the refrigerator compartment in the refrigerator at 0 ... I'm waiting.

Long talk about your experiments and searches for aging and storing dairy products, just look at the pictures yourself, and especially pay attention to the shelf life of the milk, and their appearance.


Sour cream Valio - purchase date March 28, 2010 - the appearance is quite normal, the smell of fresh sour cream, only the liquid has become cloudy.




Sour cream Blagoda - purchase date May 15, 2010 - the appearance is quite normal, the smell of fresh sour cream, only the liquid has become cloudy.




Curd - purchase date May 2, 2010 - the look is great! The smell of fresh cottage cheese!





This is what and how many preservatives and antibiotics had to be "stuffed" into the milk so that it could retain its appearance and smell for so long !!!
To the taste, sorry did not try!
Experiments finished!

I'll go to my milkmaids - I was the one who was punished for laziness, wait for the milkmaid!

[LIME SOLUTION]

Hmmm ......

I’m watching, there are a lot of programs on TV now that tell the truth about products that are sold everywhere.

The list of dangerous products is growing all the time.
To my surprise, this list includes such products that I could not at all think that they were dangerous and harmful.

For example black olives.
It turns out that the manufacturer can take green olives and paint them, that is, turn them into olives.
This is technologically more profitable.

But the dye is very harmful.

More red caviar. It is a delicacy and is rich in vitamins. But it turns out that the preservative that is used for the production of caviar in the body breaks down into formaldehyde and some other byaka.
Formaldehyde is so toxic that caviar turns into poison ...

As for the milk.
My friend worked as a freight forwarder, she went to villages for milk.
They recruited a milk tanker, upon delivery they will be tested for acidity, if the acidity is above the norm, then the milk will not be accepted at the reception.

What solution did the clever managers come up with.
They pour several buckets into the milk tanker LIME SOLUTION, this makes the reaction alkaline.
That's how much nasty stuff gets into milk even before production starts.

I just watch all the programs like that, about the products.
It turns out that there is practically nothing to eat.
We need to offer the people some way out.

[natamylove]

Thrush is also not a panacea, unfortunately. Because her cow eats everything that our cars drive, what our factories produce, etc. For example, I have a chemical production giant in a kilometer, of which there are only two in Russia, as far as I remember, and another 10 kilometers - a metallurgical one, and we are also a zone with a preferential socio-economic status, affected by the Chernobyl precipitation. The clouds with radioactive rain, which went to Moscow, were besieged on the way. It is a pity for Moscow, but we are not. All this is eaten by your cows and our milkmaids. Moreover, I definitely carried milk to the SES for analysis, before becoming a regular customer of some kind of milkmaid. Admin, as I understand it, you also take only from a proven one and your own. At least from mortar in milk is guaranteed.

Food is not going to be healthy here. Somewhere just very deep in the countryside away from central Russia. We can only strive not to eat what is stuffed with a bunch of chemical additives (bake the same bread on our own without improvers, etc.), but bad ecology and its influence on products cannot be put anywhere.

natamylove

At least go to subsistence farming. And then. This year, a wireworm ate the half-city of the parents. What to do? Without chemicals, nowhere, they will eat everything at all: weevils, larvae of the Colorado potato beetle, etc. Mom really does not like chemicals in her own area, so she chooses by hand and cries over completely ruined tomatoes and zucchini.

Oh, but about the milkmaids ... my stove whips butter ... I ordered milk from the mother-in-law at the dacha, brought a 3-liter jar, collected the cream, but somehow they seemed a little thin to me ... We made such an order three times milk and three times I got a slurry, not butter ... And they took both early and evening and daytime, and then the mother-in-law complained that from 3 liters of cottage cheese it turns out that it is cheaper to buy on the market ... what is the reason for this "phenomenon"?) Then it is more interesting ... I went to the market, went to the milkmaid, got into a conversation for sour cream, she, like a seasoned promoter, described everything to me soooo, well, I'll take it and blurt out the butter, it will turn out, so again to I'll come to you ... Immediately I took out some other sour cream from under the floor (he speaks fatter) and poured it completely different from the one I had offered ... The butter was whipped, but believe who, people ... I'll go to my mother soon to the village, and there everything is of its own, delicious, without chemicals and additives ... Once I watched a program, they said that abroad whole yami go to villages for the summer to eat pure food, they pay 3-4 times more for food ...

The density and fat content of milk depends on the cow and what she is fed with. In summer, milk is always less dense, the yield of cottage cheese is less.
The quality of market products is a separate issue. I buy pork, stew half a pot of water, cutlets float in a frying pan. Homemade meat, not Polish.What's this? They told me that piglets are fed with hormones, they grow very quickly and, as I understand it, due to fluid retention? And what do we buy in this case on the market?

sweeta, I myself watch programs on STB about products, I have already removed a lot from the diet of our family, I really would never have thought of these products ... but most of all it pisses me off that they show on TV, and no one takes any measures as there were dyes so and remain ...
Once every 2 weeks we go to the market 50 km from the house, they sell meat and milk, homemade fruits and vegetables, they sell from nearby villages ... so I take homemade butter there for 33 UAH. per kg Shop for 50-70 UAH and did not lie nearby. This is the taste of my Soviet childhood Sweet and for some reason it smells like strawberries ... we melted it, so there was not even a gram of whey
And we take sour cream and cream there 2 times cheaper and fresher than we have in Donetsk and Makeyevka. The cottage cheese is dry and not sour, but store-bought like a plastic taste. On one oil, we only pay off gasoline for ourselves, and also the freshest lard and meat. We have our own garden and vegetable garden, I can't imagine how living on the floors you can please children with all sorts of berries and fruits in abundance.
Milk is most likely either bred or not fat, but cows are also different ...

Girls, those who trade in the market also have access to antibiotics, chemicals and hormones. I don’t believe anyone, forgive me for such pessimism. I only believe in my own hands. If I grew onions in the garden, then in it, apart from rubbish from the soil, which is everywhere and there is no way to get away from it, I personally have not added anything.

I remember how in the south the owner allowed me to pick fruit for food from a tree in the garden (apricots or something? I don’t remember). And then he added - don't tear off these and these, I grow these for sale, but tear from these - these are for yourself, for food. The conclusion is obvious.

Oh, and about the milkmaids ... my stove whips butter ... I ordered milk from the mother-in-law at the dacha, brought a 3-liter jar, collected the cream, but somehow they seemed a little thin to me ... We made such an order three times milk and three times I got a slurry, not butter ... And they took both early and evening and daytime, and then the mother-in-law complained that with 3 liters of cottage cheese it turns out that it is cheaper to buy on the market ... what is the reason for this "phenomenon"?) Further more interesting ... I went to the market, went to the milkmaid, got into a conversation for sour cream, she, like a seasoned promoter, described everything to me soooo, well, I’ll take it and blurt out the butter, I’ll be able to beat I’ll come to you ... Immediately I took out some other sour cream from under the floor (he speaks fatter) and poured it completely different from the one I had offered ... The butter was whipped, but believe who, people ... I’ll go to my mother soon to the village, and there everything is of its own, delicious, without chemicals and additives ... Once I watched a program, they said that abroad whole yami go to villages for the summer to eat pure food, they pay 3-4 times more for food ...

I also have my own thrush. I found it when I was learning how to make butter last year. So she also has several types of sour cream. There are cream, milk, separator and some other kind. But all kinds are of high quality. And she advises me: This one is for butter, this one is for something else that I need. so it's not a fact that the one that you were offered first was bad ... just not suitable for butter.

As for the meat, what do I know.
This applies to pork. Now we sell a dietary supplement for pigs - they guarantee fast growth, this and that.
This is just disgusting, there are hormones.
People take, I know, but so far few.
basically all pigs are fed on wheat and barley.
But who, as a business, breeds pigs, our neighbor keeps 28 pigs, maybe they do, I didn't ask.

This supplement is not suitable for gobies.

As for the poultry, everything is fine here (except for broilers),

starting compound feed in the first 10-20 days of life, then grain.

and the broiler is grown only on compound feed.
Regarding sour cream (she herself was selling for 10 years, living in the city).
We made 2-3 types of sour cream of varying degrees of fat content.

Separator and fermented.
Fermented is made using a technology similar to the preparation of yogurt.

Separator sour cream + milk temprate 38 degrees and warm for 5-6 hours.

How much milk you add, such a fat content of sour cream will turn out.
I had 2-3 liters of milk for a bucket of pure cream.

Very tasty, thick sour cream.

But oil is NOT GOOD.

It is imperative to ask the milkmaids, is there sour cream for butter?
I had 2 types of sour cream on the counter, at different prices.

All good. You can't make okroshka with a separator, both are needed.

Oh, I forgot.
I was in Odessa that summer, because there is cream (separator sour cream) and sour cream on the market.

There is no catch-hosh buy something, hosh another.
The price is different, all to be honest.

[sweeta]

sweeta

you won't get butter from skimmed cream.
You need to buy separator sour cream, load it into the unit and you get oil.

Our grandmother kept a cow, I remember from childhood, she skimmed the cream by hand (there was no separator).
She had 5-6 three-liter bottles of milk, it turned sour, and was already removed from the sour inch.
And it turned out 0.5-0.8 kg of butter approximately (I could be wrong)
And with 0.5 kg of good separator sour cream, you will have 300 grams of butter.

Thrush is also not a panacea, unfortunately.

Natasha is a panacea for thrush, because milk is from a cow and without antibiotics.
Milk is delivered to my house in the morning, still warm.

When you live in a city, and no other options are foreseen - the milkmaid is very handy, especially since you have known for many years.

[natamylove]

natamylove , thanks for such detailed explanations ... Every time you are convinced that you still don't know so much ... Somehow I never thought about what to eat, how to eat, and then as soon as I got to the site, my eyes opened to so many things. .. I also want to eat myself and feed my family not only tasty, but also healthy ... Some six months ago I could not imagine that I would bake bread myself (with a stove), I would learn how to cook yogurt, butter, baked milk, fermented baked milk, cottage cheese and ice cream ... Thanks to THIS SITE, thanks to all its participants for their advice, for their help and for the experience that they share from the bottom of their hearts

Something lately the programs that go on our TV and repeat about the dangers of certain products have begun to annoy me.
Milk / cottage cheese / - not allowed, meat / poultry / fish - not allowed, chocolate / sweets / - not allowed, fruits / vegetables - not allowed ... GMOs everywhere, antibiotics, etc., etc.
Well, another TV program has passed and what's next, what has changed? Everyone started raising chickens, cows and fish? Don't buy more vegetables and fruits?
Well, we bake the bread ourselves, but how "pure" is the flour we use, how is it processed so that it is so white?
Many now have the opportunity to buy products on the market (milk), but who knows what this "milkmaid" fed her cow, or maybe she didn't, maybe she was just a seller, where are the guarantees?

In general, only one conclusion suggests itself. The production and sale of food is a business and the idea is simple - to reduce costs and increase profits. So, no matter how many horror stories they show us - figs (I'm sorry) that will change.

[sweeta]

sweeta
... with 0.5 kg of good separator sour cream you will have 300 grams of butter.

400 grams of oil will definitely be! I held the cow, separated the milk through a separator, and churned the butter in a churn. From 15 liters of milk 1 liter of cream comes out, and only from 1 liter of pasteurized to 80 * and then fermented cream, 800 grams of butter comes out of the churn.

[Sonadora]

Sonadora
I agree with you 100%!

In general, only one conclusion suggests itself. The production and sale of food is a business and the idea is simple - to reduce costs and increase profits. So, no matter how many horror stories they showed us - figs (I'm sorry) that will change.

But only I think that all the same can change. : flowers: The manufacturer is the same person as, for example, you and me. They also have to eat something. : -X And ​​if everything is around

GMOs, antibiotics, etc., etc ...

then they themselves, they live next to us, at least I know a couple of owners of large Russian food companies. Ordinary guys, one has a dairy business (we all know his cheese and milk), our other "colleague" is engaged in the production of hb (all five is hammered) To the question (in an informal setting), - Why all this chemistry? ... Answer - The cost price is so lower, the networkers take on the implementation under draconian conditions, bring down the price by more than half, and if it were not for chemistry, it would work at a loss.
Have you noticed that in our chain stores in Russia, butter is not in packs, but the packaging is simple and then from Australia? I thought our family took a kilogram, but it turned out And ketchup? You can name at least one of our Russian companies that would supply "pure" ketchup to the Russian market, without additives .... but Heinz (indeed without additives, but therefore expensive) is in abundance.
In my opinion, someone is very purposefully destroying our market for natural products, in order, for example, like with Heinz, to sell their own (really clean) at exorbitant prices. I am afraid that soon as in America it will be - who will buy richer without GMOs, antibiotics, etc. and so on ... And who is poorer than "chemistry".

I doubt that the inscription on the packaging "No soy" guarantees its absence in the product.
"VELCOM" glues big labels on its sausages and boiled sausages "without soybeans", and as a result, after all the test purchases and inspections, there is only soybeans.