The Ministry of agriculture of the USA issued a permit for Russet Burbank, genetically modified potato is the second generation Innate company J. R. Simplot Co.

Russet Burbank has been modified to resist pathogenic microorganism, which led to the potato blight and is still a problem today, and destroys crops worldwide. This variety of potato can also longer be stored in colder temperatures, which will reduce food waste.

This class includes properties of potato first generation – it is more difficult to mash - and a lower concentration of a chemical that is formed at high temperatures and, as shown by some studies to cause cancer.

To produce these modifications, Simplot off existing genes or added genes from other potato. A gene that makes the potatoes resistant to potato blight, was borrowed from Argentine varieties of potatoes, which in a natural way increases protection against this disease. So the creators Russet Burbank insist that there are clear benefits for all, and it's just potatoes, management said Simplot.

The first generation of Innate potato, named White Russets, sold 400 acres in grocery stores in 10 States of the Midwest and the Southeast last summer.

A new variety Russet Burbank is still awaiting approval by the office of quality control of food products and the office for the protection of the environment. The company believes that will be the solution to both agencies during the year and begin commercial planting in 2017. The potatoes will be ready for consumers in the fall of that year.

Although additional genes of potato were obtained from another potato, this may not be enough to ease the fears of consumers, celebrities, lawmakers and experts on health, believes that genetically modified foods of any kind of unsafe for consumption.

In the United States and around the world are gaining popularity everyday products, and attempts to introduce labelling of GM products are amplified.