The French health and sanitary agency, ANSES, has recently released an opinion regarding the categorization of plants obtained by new genetic techniques (NGT) as proposed by the European Commission. The opinion has concluded about a lack of scientific basis for this central component of the new European regulation on the NGT that distinguishes between the two types of new GMOs : those that will be broadly deregulated because they are considered to have possibly arisen naturally, and those that will remain under the control of the current regulations for GMOs. We will notably discuss if the absence of novel or chimeric proteins that are not found in the non modified parent plants could be a criteria to be checked through an indoor test assessment.
Below, you will find the ANSES PowerPoint :
