Activists raise warning flags about 'synthetic biology' ingredients
Story Date: 10/1/2014

 

Source: FOOD NAVIGATOR, 9/25/14

Opponents of genetic modification say there is a new, potentially more powerful technology to contend with: synthetic biology.  Purveyors of natural products who are concerned about this technique have coined the term for the way in which scientists have created single-celled organisms to secrete various molecules of interest in a fermentation setting.

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