Fang Lifeng, Greenpeace’s food and agriculture campaigner, told China Daily that the long-term risk of genetically modified rice should be taken into consideration. ”Once the engineered rice gets into the food chain on large scale, it will have a very big impact on food safety, environmental safety and biological diversity,” Fang warned. He cited some examples on the long-term risk of genetically modified food since it first appeared on the market in 1994.