CRITICISMS AND IMPROVEMENTS OF STRATEGIES FOR THE SAFETY ASSESSMENT OF GM PLANT DERIVED FOODS OR FEED An answer to EFSA Draft report on Animal feeding trials with GMOs
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Our experience in scientific committees for the assessment of environmental and health risks of GMOs, and in biological, biostatistical research and medicine, allowed us to review and criticize mammalian feeding trials with GMOs, and make new proposals. Mammalian feeding trials have been usually performed for regulatory purposes, in order to obtain authorisation or commercialisation for GM plant derived foods or feed. They may have been published in the scientific literature afterwards. We have obtained, following Court actions or official requests, the raw data of several safety, 28 day or 90 day long, in vivo tests on rats. We have thoroughly reviewed these tests from both a biological and biostatistical point of view.
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