European Food Safety Authority: Outcome of the public consultation on the draft Scientific Opinion of the Scientific Panel on Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) on the Guidance on the selection of comparators for risk assessment
Parma, Italy - the EFSA GMO Panel on Genetically Modified Organisms (EFSA GMO Panel) of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) endorsed a draft scientific opinion on the Guidance for the selection of comparators for the risk assessment of GM plants. On 15 November 2010 EFSA launched a two month public consultation on this draft guidance document.
This technical report summarises the comments received through the public consultation and outlines how these were taken into account in the final scientific opinion.
EFSA received 139 comments from 18 interested parties (non-governmental organisations, academic researchers, consultant associations, industry organisations and national assessment bodies). All the public comments received, that were within the remit of the EFSA GMO Panel, were assessed and the draft scientific opinion on the Guidance for the selection of comparators for the risk assessment of GM plants was revised taking the relevant comments into consideration.
The scientific opinion provides updated guidance for the preparation and presentation of applications with regard to the section of appropriate comparators for the risk assessment of GM plants. The scientific opinion covers guidance on the selection of appropriate comparators for the risk assessment of GM plants containing single events, GM plants containing stacked events produced either by conventional breeding or by genetic engineering and also addresses the case where alternative approaches to the comparative risk assessment may be required.
The EFSA GMO Panel addressed general comments related to the structure of the document and to the principles described, as well as scientific and technical comments related to specific issues.
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