About the meeting

The FAO GM Foods Platform Global Community Meeting ‘Towards effective risk-based GM food safety assessment and regulatory management’ will be held from 10 to 13 September 2019 at the Royal Orchid Sheraton Hotel & Towers, Bangkok, Thailand.

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).

As of February 2019, 173 out of 188 Codex Members had joined the Platform community. 

The Global Community Meeting will be a technical meeting that focusses on sharing national regulatory good practices and lessons-learnt in the food safety assessment process with a view to strengthening the capacities and understanding of less experienced countries with regard to GM food safety assessment.

The meeting will also facilitate the establishment of various bilateral and multilateral communication channels at the technical level among the platform's participants, Focal Points, and Alternate Focal Points.

Meeting objectives and desired outcomes

The specific objectives of the meeting are for FAO to provide a forum for the FAO GM Foods Platform community members to: 

  1. Establish contacts and build networks that can enable effective information sharing of technical information.
  2. Raise awareness of the benefits of the platform to increase the volume of submissions and promote its use as a resource.
  3. Enhance the ability of countries to conduct, interpret, and analyse GM foods safety assessment in accordance with the Codex Guidelines.  

Desired outcomes are for the meeting to:

  1. Strengthen the FAO GM Foods Platform community as a good community of practice.
  2. Enhance the ability of countries to conduct, interpret and analyse GM foods safety assessment in accordance with the Codex Guidelines.

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