L-Tryptophan, the First Genetically Engineered Food Supplement Tryptophan is an amino acid in our diet, and a nutritional supplement. In 1984, a Japanese Company named Showa Denko manufactured Tryptophan the new GMO way, with genetically modified bacteria programmed to produce tryptophan. The programmed bacteria were “tweaked” so much, they also produced foreign proteins that were totally new and unknown, a form of undetected product contamination. These foreign proteins caused a new disease called EMS (Eosinophilia Myalgia Syndrome), leaving 37 people dead and thousands disabled. On November 11, 1989 the FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) issued a nationwide warning to discontinue sales of L-tryptophan after 30 potential cases of EMS had been identified in New Mexico. A lawsuit was eventually settled for 2 billion dollars which disclosed information that the company used bacterial strains 5, 4 and 3 which were genetically engineered causing the EMS disease outbreak between 1984 and 1989, caused by contaminants in the tryptophan product inherent to the technique of genetic modification. Tryptophan was banned temporarily until Non-GMO Tryptophan could be made available
Posted on: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 23:34:02 +0000
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