Safety of Genetically Engineered Foods:

Approaches to Assessing Unintended Health Effects

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Publication Year:2004

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Committee on Identifying and Assessing Unintended Effects of Genetically Engineered Foods on Human Health, National Research Council
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Genetic engineering is one of the newer technologies available to produce desirable traits in plants and animals used for food, but it poses no unique health risks that cannot also arise from conventional breeding and other genetic alteration methods. Any ...
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Front Matter	i-xviii
Executive Summary	1-16	(skim)
1 Introduction	17-22	(skim)
2 Methods and Mechanisms for Genetic Manipulation of Plants	23-38	(skim)
3 Unintended Effects from Breeding	39-72	(skim)
4 New Approaches for Identifying Unintened Changes in Food Composition	73-102	(skim)
5 Adverse Impacts of Food on Human Health	103-126	(skim)
6 Methods for Predicting and Assessing Unintended Effects on Human Health	127-174	(skim)
7 Framework, Findings, and Recommendations	175-188	(skim)
Appendix A: Glossary	189-206	(skim)
Appendix B: Open Session and Workshop Agendas	207-210	(skim)
Appendix C: Committee Member Biographical Sketches	211-216	(skim)
Subreport: Methods and Mechanisms of Genetic Manipulation and Cloning of Animals	217-236	(skim)

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Genetic engineering is one of the newer technologies available to produce desirable traits in plants and animals used for food, but it poses no unique health risks that cannot also arise from conventional breeding and other genetic alteration methods. Any of those methods could result in unintended changes in the composition of the food. The report concludes that all altered foods should be assessed on a case-by-case basis before they are sold to the public to determine whether unintended changes in the composition of the food could adversely affect human health. Surveillance after a food is on the market might also be needed in some cases.

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