Wednesday, July 19, 2006
A new designer ice cream, made potential by genetic modification, threatens to set off a "time bomb" in the health of British children, scientists are warning.
The scientists, from Britain and Canada, have prepared an official committee that this month would rule on the safety of the ice cream, being sold increasingly worldwide by the food giant Unilever.
It has an artificial protein copied, through a GM process, from a fish living in the frigid waters of the bottom of the North-west Atlantic.
An "anti-freeze" protein permits the fish - the ocean pout - to survive extreme cold.
Unilever, the world's biggest ice cream maker, says using its fake equivalent allows it "to produce products with more intense flavor delivery, a wider range of novel textures and more intricate shapes."
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