A study presented by the Austrian Ministry of Agriculture and Health, in a scientific seminar held in Vienna, indicates that genetically modified organisms can affect reproductive capacity and therefore specialists require the withdrawal of these products .
The study indicates that fertility of laboratory mice, fed with genetically modified maize, was seriously affected,they procreating only a little, compared with those fed with natural food.
Laboratory mice fed with food that did not contain genetically modified organisms were reproducing more efficiently. This effect can be attributed to differences in sources of food.
Austrian scientists have carried out several long-term tests with laboratory mice, along 20 weeks. In one study, which was called "reproductive assessment by continuous feeding ",it was shown that a single generation of parents gave birth to several offsprings.Parents were fed either diet containing 33% proportion of different types of genetically modified corn (NK 603 x MON 810) or non-GM maize. In laboratory mice receiving genetically modified food was a decrease in the number of pups and their weight at the third and fourth generation, compared with the reference group. This decrease is statistically significant, said study authors.
This study is another example that the safety of food and feed derived from GM crops can not be guaranteed.
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