Biosafety - BioTrack

A major fruit crop of temperate regions, APPLE is consumed worldwide as fresh fruit, juice and other food products. Leftovers from apple processing are fed to livestock. This consensus document provides science-based key insights for the safety assessment of novel foods and feeds: detailed composition (nutrients, allergens, toxicants, other metabolites), main products, suggested components for analysis of new apple cultivars for food use and feed use.

This newsletter provides an update on OECD activities related to biotechnology, or life science more generally. Issued twice a year, it is mainly intended for delegates to OECD meetings who are familiar with OECD's work. However, we hope that it might also serves a purpose to the wider biotech community.

28-29 June 2018, OECD, Paris - The Conference explored the regulatory considerations raised by genome edited products, with the aim to favour a coherent policy approach to facilitate innovation involving genome editing.