New Draft Guidance on Allergy Assessment of Genetically Modified Plants from EFSA
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has issued a new draft guidance on allergenicity testing of genetically modified (GM) plants and is permitting interested parties to comment on the guidance until September 25, 2016[1]. The draft guidance reflects new methodologies that could be applied in allergenicity assessment and recent EU legislation on GM food which mandates inclusion of analyses for certain allergens in the compositional analysis of genetically modified crops