Compositional assessment of transgenic crops: an idea whose time has passed.

Trends Biotechnol

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Published: October 2009

Compositional studies comparing transgenic crops with non-transgenic crops are almost universally required by governmental regulatory bodies to support the safety assessment of new transgenic crops. Here we discuss the assumptions that led to this requirement and lay out the theoretical and empirical evidence suggesting that such studies are no more necessary for evaluating the safety of transgenic crops than they are for traditionally bred crops.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tibtech.2009.07.003DOI Listing

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