It was a tomato called 'Flavr Savr', which stayed fresh for up to 30 days. Show more In 1994, biotech company Calgene brought the world's first genetically-modified food to supermarket shelves.

In First Fruit, Martineau, as a staff scientist working for the biotechnology startup Calgene (Davis, CA), provides an inside view of the development of the Flavr Savr tomato, the first ...

the Flavr Savr tomato – launched in 1994 – was designed to stay fresh for longer. This meant it could be picked after ripening and thus tasted better than normal supermarket tomatoes ...

Michael Le Page mentions the genetically modified Flavr Savr tomato (26 May, p 28). This was a commercial failure because it was never sold to the public except in tins or as tomato paste ...

Whereas normal tomatoes had to be picked while they were still green and artificially ripened by blasting them with gas, the new Flavr Savr toms were specially bred not to rot, meaning they could ...

It's nearly two decades since the first "transgenic" food - the Flavr Savr tomato - appeared on supermarket shelves. But the horror of fish genes in a tomato, or any other such genetic ...

Genetically modifying food is not a new concept by any means. The "Flavr Savr" tomato, the first commercially available genetically modified food, went on sale in 1994. Luckily there have been ...