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Outcome of the public consultation on the draft Scientific Opinion of the Scientific Panel on Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) on the assessment of allergenicity of GM plants and microorganisms and derived food and feed

EFSA Journal 2010; 8(7)1699 [71 pp.]. doi:10.2903/j.efsa.2010.1699
European Food Safety Authority Acknowledgment EFSA wishes to thank the members of the Working Group on “the assessment of allergenicity of genetically modified foods” for the preparation of this EFSA scientific output and EFSA’s staff member(s) Ellen Van Haver and Antonio Fernandez Dumont for the support provided to this EFSA scientific output Contact GMO@efsa.europa.eu
Type: Technical Report On request from: EFSA Question number: EFSA-Q-2009-00936 Issued: 28 July 2010 Published: 29 July 2010 Affiliation: European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), Parma, Italy
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On 21 October 2009, The Panel on Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO Panel) of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) endorsed a draft Opinion on the assessment of allergenicity of GM plants and microorganisms and derived food and feed with the aim of launching it for public consultation. This Scientific Report summarises the comments received through the public consultation and outlines how these were taken into account in the final opinion.

EFSA received 181 comments from 17 interested parties (individuals, non-governmental organisations, industry organisations, academia and national assessment bodies). All the public comments received that were within the remit of the EFSA GMO Panel were assessed and the Scientific Opinion on the assessment of allergenicity of GM plants and microorganisms and derived food and feed has been revised taking the relevant comments into consideration.

The Scientific Opinion follows a weight-of-evidence, case-by-case approach as described in the EFSA guidance document for the risk assessment of GM plants and derived food and feed, and the Codex Alimentarius guideline. Although this approach has not been questioned, the EFSA GMO Panel addressed the general comments that were related to the way how to conduct this approach and how to interpret the results of the methods as recommended in the Scientific Opinion. In addition, more technical comments related to the specifics have been addressed in the different annexes.

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