18.- Is it safe to eat a Genetically-Modified fish?

On the nineteenth of November of 2015 the FDA (The USA’s Federal Drug Administration) approved the genetically modified salmon for the human consume. It has become the first transgenic animal product that could end on our plates. Scientists have introduced hormones of other fishes like the ‘’ Chinook’’ salmon that lives in the Pacific Ocean for making this new Genetically Engineered (GE) salmon - called AquAdvantage Salmon- to grow faster.

The FDA scientists have evaluated the data given by AquaBounty Technologies (the manufacturer of the GE salmon), to evaluate whether AquAdvantage salmon met the criteria to approval the established law. After an exhaustive and rigorous scientific review, FDA has arrived at the decision that AquAdvantage salmon is as safe to eat as any non-genetically engineered fish. The data demonstrated that the inserted genes remained stable over several generations of fish, that food from the GE salmon is safe to eat by humans and animals and also as nutritious, and that the genetic engineering is safe for the fish. Although they haven’t give any date in 2010 Aquadvantage said that if the product was approved the fish could be in normal supermarkets about in two years

Thanks to these studies we can conclude that there’s not any reason against eating genetically modified fish until is proven the opposite cause is safe to eat, and is as nutritious as a non-genetically modified one.



Eloïsa Sendra