Determining the Safety of Bioengineered Microorganisms
Bioengineered microorganisms have a history of safe use in the food industry thanks to a well-developed risk-assessment process.
On January 18, 2001, the Food and Drug Administration published a “Premarket Notice Concerning Bioengineered Foods”(FDA, 2001a), a proposed set of guidelines for establishing the safety of biotechnology-derived food crops. The new policy is designed to supplement FDA’s earlier “Statement of Policy: Foods Derived from New Plant Varieties” (FDA, 1992) and address new issues that have arisen since its publication a decade ago. Interestingly, neither of these two rules specifically addresses risk as…
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