Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture , Ithaca, New York, United States.
J Agric Food Chem. 2013 Sep 4;61(35):8248-53. doi: 10.1021/jf401141r. Epub 2013 Jun 19.
Effective symposia need two strong legs to stand upon: informative presentations of recent research paired with lively discussion of these topics. Although it is easy for the organizers of a symposium to predict the usefulness of the former, as they select the speakers and their topic areas, guaranteeing productive discussion is a far more difficult task. For the Crop Composition Workshop sponsored by the International Life Sciences Institute's Committee on Food and Biotechnology (ILSI IFBIC), the organizers scheduled four roundtable discussions with preselected questions and with rapporteurs drawn from governmental organizations and public-sector research institutes (the authors). It was also the organizers' intent to let these discussions flow on the basis of the experiences of the participants and pressing issues within the overall debate on the role of crop compositional analysis within safety assessment of biotechnology as it exists now and in the future. The goal of this perspective is to summarize the issues raised, providing references when possible, and to describe the consensus statements reached through the course of these discussions.
将近期研究的信息丰富的演示与对这些主题的生动讨论相结合。尽管专题讨论会的组织者很容易预测前者的有用性，因为他们选择了演讲者及其主题领域，但保证富有成效的讨论是一项更为困难的任务。对于国际生命科学研究所食品和生物技术委员会（ILSI IFBIC）主办的作物成分研讨会，组织者安排了四轮带有预选问题的圆桌讨论，并从政府组织和公共部门研究机构（作者）中选出了报告员。组织者还打算让这些讨论根据参与者的经验和当前以及未来生物技术安全性评估中作物成分分析作用的整体辩论中的紧迫问题展开。本观点的目的是总结提出的问题，在可能的情况下提供参考，并描述通过这些讨论达成的共识声明。
