Safety of Genetically Engineered Foods: Approaches to Assessing Unintended Health Effects (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780309092098)

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.

Author: National Research Council,Institute of Medicine,Board on Agriculture and Natural Resourc
ISBN-10: 0309092094
ISBN-13: 9780309092098
Publisher: National Academies Press
Language: English
Published: 08/08/2004
Pages: 254
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.12w x 0.53d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2005 pg. 1056
Scitech Book News 12/01/2004 pg. 165