Fatty acids from genetically modified oilseed crops could replace fish oil
date:Jan 27, 2016
chieve their minimum dietary intake, you would need around 1.3 million metric tonnes of EPA per year. Fish currently provide around 40 per cent of the required amount -- so there is a large deficit between supply and demand.

There is a great need to identify alternative and sustainable sources of these beneficial fatty acids.

We wanted to test whether oil from genetically modified plants could be used as a substitute. This first study indicates that mammals can efficiently accumulate the key h
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