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The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has published guidance for the risk assessment of food and feed derived from GM animals and on related animal health and welfare aspects. The document outlines specific data requirements and the methodology to be followed for risk assessment should applications for food and feed derived from GM animals be submitted for market authorisation in the European Union (EU). The risk assessment approach compares GM animals and derived food and feed with their respective conventional counterparts, integrating food and feed safety as well as animal health and welfare aspects. Prior to its finalisation, stakeholders and interested parties provided comments on a draft of the guidance document through an online public consultation that ran over the summer 2011. (...)

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http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/press/news/120126.htm?WT.mc_id=EFSAHL01&emt=1