Assessment criteria for determining environmental safety of plants with novel traits.

  • Canada. Interdepartmental Executive Committee on Pest Management.
Date:
1994
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Credit: Assessment criteria for determining environmental safety of plants with novel traits. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    A3.10 Plant Pest: Any plant that is injurious or troublesome, or whose products or by-products are noxious or troublesome. A3.11 Plant with Novel Traits (PNT): A plant variety/genotype possessing characteristics that demonstrate neither familiarity nor substantial equivalence to those present in a distinct, stable population of a cultivated species of seed in Canada and that have been intentionally selected, created or introduced into A3.12 Substantial Equivalence: The equivalence of a novel trait within a particular plant species, in terms of its specific use and safety to the environment and human health, to those in that same species, that are in use and generally considered as safe in Canada, based on valid scientific rationale. A3.13 Unconfined Release: The use of a PNT that is not subject to reproductive and physical isolation from the natural or agricultural environment, site inspections, post-harvest land use restrictions and/or restricted use of seed and progeny’. Applications that are complete will allow for timely evaluations with a minimum of correspondence requesting further information. Plant Products Division, as lead agency for the environmental safety assessment of PNT’s, may distribute, within Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, a copy of the application to: e the Plant Health Risk Assessment Unit, Animal and Plant Health Directorate (APHD), on behalf of the Plant Protection Division, APHD; ¢ the Product Management Division, Plant Industry Directorate (PID), if the material involves altered pesticidal tolerance or altered pesticidal properties. Evaluations from the secondary agencies are returned to the Plant Products Division, and a final evaluation performed, incorporating any comments. From this, a decision will be made whether or not an unconfined release should be authorized. Prior to commercialization, depending on the use of the harvested product, Health Canada may require information allowing a determination of safety of the product as a novel food, and/or the Feed Section of the Plant Products Division may require information allowing a determination of safety of the product as a novel feed. * monitoring by the applicant will be required.
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