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First of all, you can't ever prove something is safe. All you can do with a study is prove that something is not safe. You can never prove that genetically changed materials are safe - and that shadow of doubt is all that naysayers like Erica need in order to keep getting their names in lights. Second, she assumes that scientists and company executives are bad people, who only want to make money, at the expense of people and nature. She needs to be careful in what she says and have her knowledge down right. She needs to be careful about talking about transgenic (switching genes from different animals) and genetic enhancement using the yeast genes own genetic material. There is a huge difference. As for ethyl carbamate, it hasn't been shown to cause cancer in humans because performing studies on this to prove that would be unethical, something the Nazis did. However, its so cancer causing, it's ability to cause cancer is so stable, it's actually used as a baseline to compare how cancer causing other substances are. And she says that we should continue keeping it in wine? Finally, I've worked in the past with companies who have had to deal with consumer "advocates" like Erica. Dealing with them opens up a huge can of worms. You write a response and they pick that apart to keep the debate going. People like Erica are only interested in getting their name in lights and you writing her up just fans the flames. Good work writing a one-sided story not talking to anyone on the other side. Nice lazy work!!— April 3, 2008 11:07 p.m.