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Block on GM rice ‘has cost millions of lives and led to child blindness’
Eco groups and global treaty blamed for delay in supply of vitamin-A enriched Golden Rice
Stifling international regulations have been blamed for delaying the approval of a food that could have helped save millions of lives this century.
- Robin McKie
- Guardian
The claim is made in a new investigation of the controversy surrounding the development of Golden Rice by a team of international scientists.
Golden Rice is a form of normal white rice that has been genetically modified to provide vitamin A to counter blindness and other diseases in children in the developing world.
It was developed two decades ago but…