GM GUIDELINES – EFSA

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GENERAL guidance for GMO risk assessors and commercial product market approval applicants, issued for consultation by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), should help create formal rules on such studies, a meeting staged in Brussels has heard. Other participants wanted more detailed guidance, such as testing whole food or derivatives, or on field trials. *http://www.efsa.eu.int/consultation/483/presentation_gmo_03_intro



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