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Annotated Bibliography

Bobe, M., & Procopie, R. (2015). Scientific Debate on Genetically Modified Organisms in the

Food Chain. International Journal of Economic Practices and Theories, 5(3), 151-159.

Retrieved October 25, 2017, from http://0-

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The Magdalena Bobe and Roxana Procopie both are Ph.D professors at the Bucharest

academy of Economic Studies, in the Department of Business and, Consumer Sciences

and Quality Management. According to the author description on page 159, Roxana

Procopie has participated in research about quality of food commodities in respect to

environment and consumer protection, relationships between product management and

consumer protection, as well as integrated management systems quality- food safety,

making them both qualified for research as far as GMOs affecting the food chain. This

research covers the lack of knowledge as far as the effects on human health as well as the

lack of regulations on usage of them. The debates surrounding the use of GMOs in crops

is also discussed. This source will help in my research, as far as providing a wide variety

of data, and a mostly unbiased view on the usage of GMOs.

Halter, M. C., & Zahn, J. A. (2017). Degradation and half-life of DNA present in biomass from a

genetically-modified organism during land application. Journal of Industrial

Microbiology and Biotechnology, 44(2), 213-220. Retrieved October 27, 2017, from

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10295-016-1876-x?no-access=true.

Mathew Halter and James Zahn are both molecular/micro biologists at DuPont Tate and

Lyle Products. Mather Halter has done research on a multitude of things including
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bioenergy, biosynthesis, and photosynthetic parameters of two biomass fuel feedstocks.

All the experience with biology and research gives Halter and Zahn good authority as far

as research on genetically modified organisms and their effects on the environment as

well as its DNA half-life. The source includes many sited referenced that are all

trustworthy and provide solid information to build off of. I believe this will help me with

my paper, because this source claims in the abstract that, There was no evidence for

horizontal transfer of DNA target sequences from the GMO to viable organisms present

in the soil, which further proves what I intend to establish when writing this paper,

which is that genetically modified organisms are not harmful to the environment, nor

humans when used in crops.

Panchin, A. Y., & Tuzhikov, A. I. (2016). Published GMO studies find no evidence of harm

when corrected for multiple comparisons (2nd ed., Vol. 37). Critical Reviews in

Biotechnology.

doi:http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.3109/07388551.2015.1130684

The authors Alexander Panchin and Alexander Tuzhikov both are at the institute for

information transmission problems RAS, in Moscow, Russian Federation. Tuzhikov also

studied/worked at the department of opthoology, school og medicine, Bascom Palmer eye

institute, University of Miami Miller, Miami, Florida in the USA. This makes their

credibility as far as the health aspects of Genetically Modified Organisms on humans

very strong. If they had written on environmental aspects, it would be different because

theyd have no authority on the subject. The article is more proving others wrong than

Panchin and Tuzhikov proving themselves right. It is an extremely biased article, where

they intend to prove how incorrect those who believe genetically modified organisms are
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harmful to those who consume them are. This will help with my paper because I hold the

same stance as Panchin and Tuzhikov, and they provide arguments for me to expand on

when writing.

Sax, J. K. & Doran, N. (2016). Food Labeling and Consumer Associations with Health, Safety,

and Environment. Journal of Law Medicine & Ethics, 630-638. Retrieved October 23,

2017, from http://0-

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The authors, Joanna Sax and Neal Doran bring unique views to the topic. Sax has a JD

and Ph.D. in cell and molecular biology from the University of Pennsylvania, she then

practiced law, then became the director of the Institute of Health Law studies. Sax is also

well published in the fields of biotechnology, genetically modified organisms, politics,

and medicine. Doran has a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Illinois-

Chicago, and is well published, mainly on the subjects of alcoholism and smoking. Their

research is on the concerns of not labeling genetically modified organisms and how

mislabeling affects health, safety and environment, which both authors have high

authority to write about. They write more about the perceptions of GMOs versus organic

food packaging, and are less biased in their writing. This helps me in my writing because

it will help me gain perspective when writing.

Schreiner, J. A., & Latacz-Lohmann, U. (2015). Farmers valuation of incentives to produce

genetically modified organism free milk: Insights from a discrete choice experiment in

Germany. Journal of Dairy Science, 98(11), 7498-7509. Retrieved October 20, 2017,
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The author J.A. Schreiner is from the Department of Agricultural Economics in

Germany, and U. Latacz-Lohmann is from the school of Agriculture and resource

economics at the University of Western Australia. Both have enough background on the

subject of agriculture to be able to write about the subject of genetically modified

organisms (and dairy farmers decisions whether to utilize them or not) with solid

authority on the subject matter. The resource is based off of a study in Germany done to

see how willingly dairy farmers in Germany will become modified organism free, as

offered by some other German companies. This ties in with Sax and Dorans article about

the perceptions and preconceived notions of the use of modified organisms and helps

prove how just the perception of the GMO will affect consumers view on the product as

well as the producer, which will help me immensely with my writing.

Wetzel-Strong, S. E., Detter, M. R., & Marchuk, D. A. (2015). The pathobiology of vascular

malformations: insights from human and model organism genetics. The Journal of

Pathology, 281-273. Retrieved October 24, 2017, from

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/path.4844/pdf;jsessionid=B14CA5554A6C67

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The authors are all extremely qualified to talk about the subject of genetically modified

organisms and health. Sarah Wetzel-Strong and Douglas Murchuk are at the Department

of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology at Duke Universitys school of Medicine in

Durham, North Carolina. Matthew Detter is also at the same department as them, as well

as part of a medical scientist training program at Duke. They are all highly qualified to
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talk about the medical effects of genetically modified organisms. They wrote with little to

no bias, making it a quality source to use no matter what is trying to be proven. This will

help me with my paper, because, anything written on this source that I could use to my

advantage in creating my case that modified organisms are not harmful is extremely

trustworthy due to the authors and their credibility, which I fully intend to use to my full

advantage.