Bruxelles, Belgium
December 20, 2005
Source:
European Food Safety Authority
GMO guidance document: new
chapter on general surveillance of unanticipated adverse effects
of the GM plant
Adopted on 7 December 2005
New
chapter 11.4 : General Surveillance of unanticipated adverse
effects of the GM Plant
The EFSA
Guidancedocument of the Scientific Panel on Genetically Modified
Organisms for the risk assessment of genetically modified plants
and derived food and feed has been updated with a new version of
chapter 11.4 on General Surveillance as part of the post market
environmental monitoring.
The new
version of chapter 11.4 has been adopted by the GMO Panel on 7
December 2005 and provides further guidance to applicants on the
preparation and presentation of general surveillance plans as
part of the post market environmental monitoring plan.
The EFSA GMO
Panel considers that:
- General Surveillance is
always required in the environmental monitoring plan,
- General Surveillance
should not be hypothesis driven,
- General Surveillance
should make use of existing monitoring systems, when
possible, and complement them with more focused monitoring
systems (e.g. farm questionnaires),
- Comparison should be
made with baseline data,
- Data quality,
management and statistically analysis are of high importance
in the design of General Surveillance plans.
EFSA held 7
working meetings, 3 consultation workshops with experts from
industry, environmental groups and Member States (see
minutes meetings)
and one written public consultation (from 15 July to 30
September 2005).
See also:
EFSA Guidance document of
the Scientific Panel on Genetically Modified Organisms for the
risk assessment of genetically modified plants and derived food
and feed |
