Though the rich variety of uses for GMOs provides a number of valuable benefits to humans, many people worry about potential risks. One example of public debate over the use of a genetically modified plant involves the case of Bt corn. Bt corn expresses a protein from the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis, which produces the Bt toxin. Doctors at Sherbrooke University Hospital in Quebec found Bt toxin in the blood of 93 percent of pregnant women tested,80 percent of umbilical cord of their babies,67 percent of non-pregnant women.Its shows that eating Bt corn could turn the human body into a living pesticide factory. Acute toxicity studies on the 'Flavr Savr' genetically modified tomatoes, required by the FDA, were carried out with rats
