Guidelines on the assessment of novel foods and processes / Advisory Committee on Novel Foods and Processes.

  • Great Britain. Advisory Committee on Novel Foods and Processes
Date:
1991
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    off-spring by natural means, eg a GMO loganberry from blackberry and raspberry parents, an exception might be made, but that such decisions would be made on a case-by-case basis. The Form of the Labelling Declaration When consumers should be informed about the use of GMOs and their products in, or as foods, the Committee has decided that the following statement should be made as part of the labelling requirements: ‘(contains) products of gene technology’ and that when an ingredient of the food is a product of gene technology, this should also be identified in the ingredients list. 1. For the purposes of this document the term genetically modified organism is defined as: ‘organisms in which the genetic material has been altered in a way that does not occur naturally by mating and/or natural recombination’. Included within the definition are the following techniques:— (a) recombinant DNA (r-DNA) techniques using vector systems as previously covered by Council Recommendation 82/472/EEC. [ie the formation of new combinations of genetic material by the insertion of nucleic acid molecules produced by whatever means outside the cell, into any virus, bacterial plasmid or other vector system so as to allow their incorporation into a host organism in which they do not naturally occur but in which they are capable of continued propagation]. (b) techniques involving the direct introduction into a (micro-) organism of heritable material prepared outside the (micro-) organism including micro-injection, macro-injection and micro-encapsulation. (c) cell fusion or hybridisation techniques where live cells with new com- binations of heritable genetic material are formed through the fusion of two or more cells by means of methods that do not occur naturally. Techniques which are not considered to result in genetic modification on the condition that they do not involve the use of r-DNA molecules or GMOs are: (a) in vitro fertilisation (b) conjugation, transduction, transformation or any other natural process (c) polyploidy induction For the purposes of this document the following techniques are not considered to result in genetic modification, provided that they do not involve the use of GMOs as recipient or parental organisms: (a) mutagenesis (b) cell fusion (including protoplast fusion) of cells from plants which can be produced by traditional breeding methods. Printed in the United Kingdom for HMSO 30 Dd293557 1/91 C25 G443 10170