| Other applications of transgenics
Transgenic crops are also being raised to provide an alternative to major micronutrient deficiencies like vitamin A, iron and zinc deficiencies. Golden rice is in an advanced stage of development and can potentially provide for up to 50% of requirement of nutrients in children. Such transgenic crops would pose a challenge to science based regulatory process, keeping in view the potential advantages of and reservations against transgenic food crops. Transgenics against abiotic stresses (low rainfall, saline soil) would perhaps demand different parameters for risk evaluation.
Equally engaging and requiring novel ways of regulation would be the use of plants for producing pharmaceutical products with promise to reach common people and make health management cost-effective.
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