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Safety of Genetically Engineered Foods Approaches to Assessing Unintended Health Effects

By National Research Council , Committee on Identifying and Assessing Unintended Effects of Genetically Engineered Foods on Human H

Book information

Publisher
National Academies Press
Year
2004
ISBN
9780309092098, 0309092094
LCC
TP248.65.F66 S245 2004
Open Library ID
OL10358864M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5028839 bytes)
Pages
254\254
Topic
Physics
Library
Kingdwarf
Time added
2010-01-07 06:59:20

Description

Assists policymakers in evaluating the appropriate scientific methods for detecting unintended changes in food and assessing the potential for adverse health effects from genetically modified products. In this book, the committee recommended that greater scrutiny should be given to foods containing new compounds or unusual amounts of naturally occurring substances, regardless of the method used to create them. The book offers a framework to guide federal agencies in selecting the route of safety assessment. It identifies and recommends several pre- and post-market approaches to guide the assessment of unintended compositional changes that could result from genetically modified foods and research avenues to fill the knowledge gaps.

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