Genetically Modified Crops: Assessing Safety

✍ Scribed by Keith T. Atherton

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 267
• Edition: 1st
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Biotechnology has a significant impact on both medicine and agriculture. With the introduction of new products to the marketplace, the safety of those products is of paramount importance. New safety evaluation strategies are now employed to ensure that the consumer is adequately protected. This book describes those strategies and addresses some of the key advances that have been made in agrochemical biotechnology. Genetically Modified Crops: Assessing Safety covers biotechnology's uses in agriculture, regulations on novel foods, and numerous case studies in safety evaluation. It also treats the issue of protein allergy. This volume will have a strong impact on the current debate over genetically-modified foods, and it will be a useful reference for all those working in the field.

✦ Table of Contents

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Contributors......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
The regulatory and science-based safety evaluation of genetically modified food crops a USA perspective......Page 12
The regulatory requirements for novel foods a European perspective......Page 56
The concept of substantial equivalence: an overview......Page 74
Strategies for analysing unintended effects in transgenic food crops......Page 85
Allergenicity of foods produced by genetic modification......Page 105
Biosafety of marker genes the possibility of DNA transfer from genetically modified organisms to the human gut microflora......Page 121
Case study: canola tolerant to Roundup herbicide: an assessment of its substantial equivalence compared to non-modified canola......Page 149
Case study: Bt crops a novel mode of insect control......Page 175
Case study: recombinant baculoviruses as microbial pesticidal agents......Page 212
Case study: virus-resistant crops......Page 230
Index......Page 252