Director Candida Adalla of DA Biotech PIU [...] clarified that the BT eggplant has a BT toxin which is a ”normal” component of the Philippine soil. [...] ”We are already associated with it (BT toxin). We simply got a gene from it and transferred it (to the eggplant) to make the eggplant resistant to pests,” said Adalla, who is also an entomologist. She said the genetically-modified eggplant has the ”very same appearance, taste, and chemical composition as the normal eggplant.”