What does it mean when a food product is genetically modified? Describe 3 characteristics of the food that may be modified (i.e, what do they change about the food?) When a food product is genetically modified, it means that in a laboratory plants or animals have been modified to enhance the most desired traits. These kinds of plants are called GM crops or genetically modified crops. These traits include such things as increased resistance to …showed first 75 words of 1018 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1018 total…oping the engineering techniques? Why? I think that the FDA should be responsible for controlling the genetic engineering of foods. They should be in charge because they have been running the food and drugs for a long period of time and we have been safe and kept from harm until now, so why change. The FDA has always done a decent job at securing our safety and I see no need to change that now.