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Report of the FAO GM Foods Platform global community meeting

On 10-13 September 2019, FAO organised a global community meeting of the FAO GM Foods Platform in Bangkok, Thailand. The meeting’s theme was “towards effective risk-based GM food safety assessment and regulatory management”. The report of the meeting is now available, describing key issues that were discussed, including the need for collaborative approaches in planning capacity development activities and the effectiveness of a mentoring system to obtain experience-based insights in strengthening the risk assessment process. Approximately 100 concrete steps from 28 country groups were identified and several good practices shared by countries are highlighted in the report. The FAO GM Foods Platform is an online community of practice set up to share information on the safety assessment of foods derived from recombinant-DNA plants (authorized in accordance with Codex Guideline CAC/GL 45-2003). See the report at https://doi.org/10.4060/ca8945en or contact [email protected] for more information.

16/11/2020