2021-02-22 05:06:59 GMT2021-02-22 13:06:59(Beijing Time) Xinhua English BUENOS AIRES, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) The Argentine government officially approved the emergency use of an inactivated COVID-19 vaccine developed by Chinese pharmaceutical firm Sinopharm, according to a resolution signed Sunday by the country s Minister of Health Carla Vizzotti. The resolution was signed by Vizzotti after the National Administration of Medicines, Food and Medical Technology advised the Ministry of Health to include the Sinopharm vaccine into the national inoculation plan against COVID-19. The spokesperson for the health minister stressed that clinical trials of the vaccine showed that it is safe and effective.
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While on the one hand, experts affirm that the use of transgenic foods or GMOs (genetically modified organisms) is a tool to solve food shortages and world hunger, on the other hand, activist groups reject this technology, accusing it of benefiting only large industries and to harm the environment as well as the health of people. Both perspectives, accompanied by the little diffusion that exists about GMOs, make this agrobiotechnology a controversial fact for which there is still no common agreement. What is a GMO? According to the Organization of Consumers and Users, GMOs are those that receive some genetic change either to add or eliminate some natural characteristic , this modification is carried out through molecular biotechnology where they can transfer genes or parts of DNA between different species , a fact that in a natural situation is not possible, in addition, it means that the modification will be transmitted to their offspring, according to the National Administration of Medicines, Food and Medical Technology of Argentina, ANMAT.