Herman Rod A, Storer Nicholas P, Walker Carl
Corteva Agriscience, 9330 Zionsville Road, Indianapolis, Indiana 46268, United States.
Corteva Agriscience, 8325 Northwest 62nd Avenue, Johnston, Iowa 50131, United States.
J Agric Food Chem. 2020 May 27;68(21):5787-5789. doi: 10.1021/acs.jafc.0c01550. Epub 2020 May 13.
A recent perspective defends the approach of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) for evaluating the compositional normality of genetically engineered (GE) crops using a concurrently grown subset of non-GE varieties within the risk assessment. While the approach of the EFSA manages the risk of falsely claiming equivalence, this is achieved at the expense of low power to detect true equivalence. This generates inconsistent findings and safety conclusions across studies for the same GE event based on the selected non-GE comparators. Because variation in GE crop composition has not been associated with safety, we suggest policy improvements that would better align with consumer protection.
最近的一种观点为欧洲食品安全局（EFSA）在风险评估中使用同时种植的非转基因品种子集来评估转基因（GE）作物成分正常性的方法进行了辩护。虽然EFSA的方法管理了错误声称等效性的风险，但这是以检测真正等效性的低功效为代价实现的。基于所选的非转基因对照，这在针对同一转基因事件的不同研究中产生了不一致的结果和安全结论。由于转基因作物成分的变化与安全性无关，我们建议进行政策改进，使其更好地与消费者保护保持一致。
