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Vitamin A-Rich Rice Developed to Cure Blindness

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Dec 19, 2019
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After years of development and “rigorous biosafety assessment,” the so-called “Golden Rice” has been approved by the Philippine government for direct use and food and feed. The new strain, which takes its “golden” sobriquet because of its yellowish cast from beta-carotene, is intended to protect up to 200 million people from irreversible blindness due t…

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