Resources
This page contains a collection of useful and relevant documents and websites. It includes Platform-related materials, Codex and OECD documents on the topic, other relevant documents from national, regional and international sources, and other relevant links. Click on each category to see the drop-down menu and consult the resources freely.
Codex documents
FAO documents
FAO GM Foods Platform: Are we effectively evaluating food safety? Background paper for the global community meeting
2020
Background Paper for the Platform Community Meeting 2019
The final report of the global community meeting of the FAO GM Foods Platform: Towards effective risk-based food safety assessment and regulatory management. 10-13 September 2019, Bangkok, Thailand
2020
In order for Codex Alimentarius Members to share information on the results of Genetically Modified (GM) food safety assessments, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) maintains an online database entitled “FAO GM Foods Platform”.
Highlights of the FAO GM Foods Platform (2015)
2015
The FAO GM Foods Platform is a database containing information of GM food safety that is free and available for all.
GM food safety assessment: tools for trainers. 2008
2009
While FAO recognizes that genetic engineering has the potential to help increase production and productivity in agriculture, forestry and fisheries, FAO is also mindful of concerns about the potential risks posed by certain aspects of modern biotechnology, including effects on human and animal health and possible environmental consequences.
OECD Consensus Documents for the Work on the Safety of Novel Foods and Feeds
OECD Consensus Documents for the Work on Harmonisation of Regulatory Oversight in Biotechnology
OECD Revised 2006: OECD Guidance for the Designation of a Unique Identifier for Transgenic Plants
OECD Documents on Harmonisation of Regulatory Oversight in Biotechnology and the Safety of Novel Foods and Feeds
OECD Unique Identifier Checker
International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications (ISAAA)
Biosafety Clearing House (Convention on Biological Diversity) - LMOs, Genes or Organisms
Health Canada Approvals
EU Register of authorised GMOs
US Food & Drug Administration
Japan Ministry of Health, Labour & Welfare - Foods Produced by Recombinant DNA Techniques
Brasil CTNBio
Australia/New Zealand (FSANZ) – GM Applications and current status
Biosafety Clearing House
European Food safety Authority (EFSA)
Codex links
- Codex Alimentarius – International Food Standards
- Ad Hoc Intergovernmental Task Force on Food Derived from Biotechnology (TFFBT) - Committee detail page
FAO links
- FAO Food Safety and Quality: Biotechnology, GMO and GM foods
- Photo's of Launch of FAO GM Foods Platform
- FAO biosafety events website
- FAO's role in biotechnology
Other links
Other documents
- UNCTAD - International trade in GMOs and GM products: National and multilateral legal frameworks. 2005
- WHO - Modern food biotechnology, human health and development: An evidence-based study. 2005