PERINATOLOGIYA I PEDIATRIYA. 2014. 2(58):110-112; doi 10.15574/PP.2014.58.110 

GMO and children's feeding: parents opinion 
 

Kurets O. O., Yuschenko L. O., Oniskova O. V.

Vinnytsya National Memorial Medical University of N.I.Pyrogov, Vinnytsya, Ukraine 
 

Purpose — to determine the Biosafety knowledge level and parents attitudes towards their children eating genetically modified foods. 
 

Patients and methods. The parents were quizzed whose children were on the stationary treatment department for early age children in Vinnytsya state hospital «Mother and Child center».There were 46 children aged from 3 months to 1 year (20 boys and 16 girls) on bottle and mixed nutrition with the different respiratory system pathology: 50.0% — pneumonia, 30.4% — acute bronchitis, 19.6% — acute respiratory disease. For main disease diagnosis there were carefully collected complaints, anamnesis, laboratory research and for confirm the diagnosis — chest radiography. 
 

Rusults. A lack of parents knowledge about baby food composition and its differences was identified. And it was set that 32.6% respondents using 2 or more compositions when feeding based mainly on a doctor recommendation and rarely pricing. There is no information as for GMO negative influence among parents. Only third part of parents wished that the food with transgenes should be compulsory marked and the society — more informed. 
 

Conclusion. The further studying of the world experience results using GMO food and conducting own researches will give a chance to be more informed and understandable in potential risks. It will help to make an informed choices because of the GMO biosafety researching and monitoring should be ahead its commercial using. 
 

Key words: children, baby food, products containing genetically modified organisms. 
 

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