Products that are even more safe and healthy for consumers

Biotechnology should offer consumers products with new nutritional properties. So, in the future, biotechnology could bring some considerable changes to the world of food and considerably improve public health.Safety for consumers, industry’s number one priority
For the food and drink industry the safety of products is a precondition to marketing or using any food product or ingredient. Genetically modified organisms are not an exception. All new categories of GMOs are subject to extremely meticulous testing in order to ensure that they do not present any risk of allergies or any other risk on health or on the environment.

Prior to any authorisation, EU expert committees, completely trusted by the CIAA, carry out independent risk assessments. Within the context of future regulation, industry believes that this is an inherent responsibility for the new European Food Safety Authority.

For more information:
Scientific Committee for Food
http://www.europa.eu.int/comm/food/fs/sc/scf/index_en.html

European Food Safety Authority
http://www.efsa.eu.int/index_en.html