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Safety of genetically engineered foods : approaches to assessing unintended health effects / Committee on Identifying and Assessing Unintended Effects of Genetically Engineered Foods on Human Health, Board on Life Sciences, Food and Nutrition Board, Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources, Institute of Medicine and National Research Council of the National Academies.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Identifying and Assessing Unintended Effects of Genetically Engineered Foods on Human Health.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Genetically modified foods.
- Public health--United States.
- Public health.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (254 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, 2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Assists policymakers in evaluating the appropriate scientific methods for detecting unintended changes in food and assessing the potential for adverse health effects from genetically modified products. In this book, the committee recommended that greater scrutiny should be given to foods containing new compounds or unusual amounts of naturally occurring substances, regardless of the method used to create them. The book offers a framework to guide federal agencies in selecting the route of safety assessment. It identifies and recommends several pre- and post-market approaches to guide the assessment of unintended compositional changes that could result from genetically modified foods and research avenues to fill the knowledge gaps.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Methods and mechanisms for genetic manipulation of plants, animals, and microorganisms
- Unintended effects from breeding
- New approaches for identifying unintended changes in food composition
- Adverse impacts of food on human health
- Methods for predicting and assessing unintended effects on human health
- Framework, findings, and recommendations.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9786610176151
- 9780309166157
- 0309166152
- 9781280176159
- 1280176156
- 9780309531948
- 0309531942
- OCLC:
- 56987889
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