Topic: Center For Disease Control

The 1989 L-Tryptophan epidemic serves as a primary example of the dangers of genetic engineering, where a supplement produced via GE bacteria caused dozens of deaths and thousands of illnesses. Steven Druker explains that the bacteria were forced to hyperproduce amino acids, leading to toxic contaminants that bypassed standard pharmacological purity tests. The FDA is accused of obfuscating the link between the genetic engineering process and the resulting health crisis.