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EFSA Report on animal feeding trials in GM plant evaluation published in a scientific journal

Food and Chemical Toxicology has just published an EFSA self-task Report which assesses the use of animal feeding trials in the evaluation of GMOs. This issue has been the subject of...

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10 March 2008
EFSA works with Member States on best approaches to GMO risk assessment

The European Food Safety Authority is working closely with Member States on GMO risk assessment. At a meeting organised by EFSA, more than 60 GMO experts from national regulatory...

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30 January 2008
EFSA Executive Director meets representatives of the Genetic Rights Foundation and Coalizione Italia-Europa “Liberi da OGM”

The Executive Director of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), Catherine Geslain-Lanéelle, today met Mario Capanna, president of the Genetic Rights Foundation, Ivan Verga,...

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30 October 2007
Assessing the environmental impact of genetically modified plants - EFSA Scientific Colloquium - 20-21 June, Tabiano, Parma, Italy

On 20 and 21 June, EFSA held a two day Scientific Colloquium in Parma on the Environmental Risk Assessment of Genetically Modified (GM) plants. Leading scientists from both EU and...

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4 July 2007
EFSA reaffirms its risk assessment of genetically modified maize MON 863

At the request of the European Commission (EC), EFSA has examined a paper by Séralini et al. on the statistical evaluation of a 90-day feeding study in animals with genetically...

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28 June 2007
EFSA GMO Panel reconfirms that the use of the nptII gene as a selectable marker in GM plants does not pose a risk to human or animal health or the environment

EFSA’s GMO Panel has published a scientific statement confirming earlier safety assessments of GM plants and derived food/feed comprising the nptII gene. On 2nd March, the European...

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13 April 2007
EFSA statement on the recent CRIIGEN [1] publication on MON 863 maize -UPDATE

The European Commission has requested that EFSA examine the recently published CRIIGEN study on genetically modified maize MON 863, to identify any consequences for EFSA’s existing...

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26 March 2007
EFSA statement on the recent CRIIGEN publication on MON 863 maize

EFSA is aware of the recently presented publication by the CRIIGEN research group on genetically modified maize MON 863 containing a revised statistical analysis of the 90 day rat...

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15 March 2007
EFSA meets the four Member States presently involved in carrying out GMO environmental risk assessments

Experts from France, Germany, Spain and the Netherlands met with environmental expert members of the GMO Environmental Risk Assessment Working Group of the European Food Safety...

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7 February 2007

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