Food safety evaluation.

This Workshop was established primarily to address the question of what strategies can be used to establish the safety of food produced by biotechnology if there is no acceptable counterpart for comparison. Workshop presentations discussed the construction of safe recombinant wine yeast strains; saf...

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Corporate Authors: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Environment Directorate, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Directorate for Science, Technology, and Industry, OECD Workshop on Food Safety Evaluation
Format: Conference Proceeding Book
Language:English
Published: Paris : Washington, D.C. : Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ; OECD Publications and Information Center [distributor], ©1996.
Series:OECD documents.
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Summary:This Workshop was established primarily to address the question of what strategies can be used to establish the safety of food produced by biotechnology if there is no acceptable counterpart for comparison. Workshop presentations discussed the construction of safe recombinant wine yeast strains; safety approaches to pure culture fermentation of vegetables; food safety assessment of transgenic insect-resistant Bt tomatoes; evaluation of toxicological studies on Flavr Savr tomato; safety evaluation of glyphosate-tolerant soybeans; food safety evaluation of a transgenic squash; evaluation of strategies for food safety assessment of genetically modified agricultural products; limitations of whole food feeding studies in food safety assessment; toxicological testing of novel foods; dietary assessment related to the safety evaluation of foods; the role of databases; the use of in vivo and in vitro models in the testing of microorganisms; the application of human-type diets in rodent feeding studies for the safety evaluation of novel foods; investigations of the allergenicity of Brazil nut 2S seed storage protein in transgenic soybean; U.S. EPA considerations for mammalian health effects presented by transgenic plant pesticides; etc.
Item Description:Papers presented at the OECD Workshop on Food Safety Evaluation, held in Oxford, England, September 12-15, 1994.
Prepared by the OECD Environment Directorate in collaboration with the Directorate for Science, Technology and Industry.
Physical Description:180 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9264148671
9789264148673