AAEM calling on all doctors to collect non-GMO health and diet data

June 5, 3:03 PMLA Environmental Health ExaminerNJ Jaeger

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The American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM) is reaching out to the medical community, their members and independent scientists in an effort to collect case studies to assess health effects that can be ascribed to the consumption of Genetically Modified (GM) foods. The organization plans to begin epidemiological research as well to examine how GM foods impact human health.

GMOs are the result of laboratory processes, which artificially insert foreign genes into the DNA of food crops or animals. Those genes may come from bacteria, viruses, insects, animals or even humans.

AAEM's President, Dr. Jennifer Armstrong says, "Physicians are probably seeing the effects [of eating foods with GMOs] in their patients, but need to know how to ask the right questions."

AAEM called for an immediate moratorium on all GMOs last week.

Links:

Read the AAEM Position Paper on Genetically Modified Foods at www.aaemonline.org  

Read about the 65 Health Risks of GMOs at www.responsibletechnology.org