Novel foods, GMO

The beetle study, the broadest recent investigation on GMO effects on the environment

What are unintended effects really ? A molecular answer

Can GMO help in food crises    or not    ? 

EFSA gives some comments on safety of cloned food, discussing potential epigenetic effects vaguely

No consequences from epigenetics in cloned animal foods ? FDA decision

Food cloning

Doppel haploid Technologie für bessere Ernterträge? 

WHO: Biotechnology and GM food safetyWork in the area of GM food- and GMO environmental safety

Safety for human health and the environment needs to be seen in a holistic way, including socioeconomic effects, aspects of globalised trading versus local specificities and ethic conclusions. This is specifically described in the WHO study on modern food Biotechnology.

 Links:

• The State of Food and Agriculture
  
• Genetically modified Crops (A FAO document on bio-security for agriculture and food production was heavily criticized by many NGOs because of the general conclusions but contains useful and differentiated information)

• WHO study: Modern food biotechnology human health and development (This study indicates the need to look at GMO food production in a holistic, integrative way where local agro-ecolocial and socio-economic aspects might decide on benefits or failures of products and developments. Experiences from GM technology show that societies need to shape technological developments to achieve a local specific adaptation and production of public goods )                 
• Gute, böse grüne Gentechnik, ein Bericht aus Brand1

•  WHO, Biotechnology (GM foods)
• Haslberger, CODEX guidelines, Nature Biotechnology
• FAO/WHO expert consulation, GM foods
• http://www.genewatch.org/WTO/WTO_Submissions.htm This site gives a good comparison about the scientifc arguments on GM safety and the different concepts in risk assessment. -
• Haslberger, ARTIKEL FURCHE (WTO-Handelsregelungen gegen Biodiversität?)
• Transgenic Crops and Sustainable Agriculture in the European Context (Different agro- ecological backgrounds and their consequences)
• GMO: TRADE US-EU (Differing U.S. and European Perspectives on GMOs: Political, Economic and Cultural Issues)
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Principles of regulations and concepts for a risk assessment from WHO/FAO/CODEX/EFSA expert consultation and guidelines






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Environmental safety and the need for an Integrated Approach linking environmental and 

health safety assessment

• Cartagena Protocol on Biosafty
• The Net Fitness Model
• Ellstrand
• GM contamination, Haslberger, Nature Biotechnology
• GVO und Umwelt
• latest results of the contamination of Mexican Maize land races
• There will be a need for an integrated safety assessment linking health, food safety and environmetal safety. Integrated safety assessment for GVO, Haslberger

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  The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (CPB) under the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) regulates environmental safety of transboundary movement of GMO/ LMO. The problems observed with contamination of Mexican maize landraces with genes from various GM maize lines from the US must not happen again. However, to define what is a damage to environment, ecosystems, biodiversity or landscapes will be hard agree and harmonise
  
  
  
  
  Ethische Aspekte der Kennzeichnung von GMO
  
  • GMO LABEL REVIEW --> TOTER LINK
  • ENTRANSFOOD
  • ISBGMO Beijing conference BIOSAFETY
  • The substantial equivalence and enviromental influences on plant antinutrients, Novak and Haslberger
  • US EPA Meeting 2006
  • ISEES News - 2006
  • Safety First Principle
  • http://efsa.eu.int/index_en.html --> TOTER LINK
  • EFSA Guidance

 

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Aspects of GM food safety

Various articles from Alexander Haslberger:

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  • Monitoring and Labelling, Haslberger, Science
  • Allergenicity
  • GMO China
  • Landwirtschaft und Gentechnik
  • GM food safety, 2004
  • GM food safty.ppt