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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 12309

2 August 2019
SECTORAL POLICIES / Food safety
Genetically modified foods, EFSA publishes a guide for assessing human exposure to newly expressed proteins
Brussels, 01/08/2019 (Agence Europe)

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) published on Wednesday 31 July its guidance on how human dietary exposure to newly expressed proteins in genetically modified foods should be estimated, based on a model using available information on the consumption and concentration of components.

Dietary exposure is an essential element in the risk assessment of genetically modified foods, EFSA emphasises.

Dietary exposure estimates should cover average and high consumers across all the different...

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