Regulation of Genetically Modified Plants in the European Union - The European Food Safety Authority has issued a Question and Answer Document, titled "EFSA GMO Risk Assessment FAQs" which addresses the EFSA Role in GMO Risk Assessment - Some of the questions answered are: How does EFSA carry out GMO risk assessments? Why does EFSA not carry out its own studies? Can the public access GMO applications? How does EFSA take account of long-term effects for human health and the environment and assess potential impact on biodiversity? What about the issue of coexistence with conventional crops and uncertainties, assumptions and the precautionary principle? Why does EFSA keep getting asked to look again at its risk assessments? Why does EFSA consider that antibiotic resistance genes in some of the GM plants are not dangerous?

Organization: European Food Safety Authority

Source: July 11, 2008 EFSA Newsletter and access to the FAQ document

Web site: The July 2008 EFSA FAQ document is posted at

<http://www.efsa.europa.eu/EFSA/efsa_locale-1178620753812_EFSAGMORiskFAQs.htm> 

Other EFSA FAQ documents are posted at
 
http://www.efsa.europa.eu/EFSA/header/efsa_locale-1178620753812_FAQs.htm
 
Contact: The Head of the EFSA GMO Unit is Per Bergman who may be reached at +39 0521 036 354;
<mailto:Per.Bergman@EFSA.Europa.EU&gt;

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