For the fifth consecutive year, Brazil is considered as being the second largest producer of transgenic plants of the world, after the United States. The area for this type of culture already exceeded 40 million of hectares in our country.
The continuous increase of the area planted with transgenic soy, maize and cotton varieties, and the successive commercial release of new genetically modified organisms (GMOs), with combined alterated genes now, indicate the importance of monitoring their possible impacts to the environment, in general, and the human health, in particular.
With the book “Transgenic Crops – hazards and uncertainties: More than 750 studies disregarded by the GMOs regulatory bodies”, the MDA’s intention is, therefore, to promote the thinking and contribute to the debate about the release and use of transgenic plants, focused on the importance of maintaining the biodiversity and agrobiodiversity, the safety and food sovereignty and the sustainable rural development. Have a good reading!