Is Golden Rice effective in treating vitamin A deficiency?
Tests on healthy adult humans published online are said to show that the beta-carotene in Golden Rice successfully converts to vitamin A.[17] But the target consumers for Golden Rice are not healthy adults. People who suffer from vitamin A deficiency are frequently deficient in other nutrients, including ones that are vital to the absorption of vitamin A, such as fat. So this is an important question. But no results have been published. (iii) How much beta-carotene in Golden Rice degrades during storage? No data have been published on this, even though the Golden Rice Humanitarian Board stated that this was to be tested straight after the first field trials in 2004.[18] (iv) How much beta-carotene is left in Golden Rice after cooking? No data have been published on this. (v) What is Golden Rice’s biological and biochemical makeup? This is inadequately described in published material.[19] Worryingly, GR2 is not a GM variety based on a single transformation event. On the contrary, the sc
