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EH92-527-1
Potato
ID-Number  BPS-25271-9
International
Scope
Trait  Altered composition
Status
Valid authorisation
Application
Company BASF Plant Science
Presented in United Kingdom
Date 25/04/2005
Legislation Regulation 1829/2003 on genetically modified food and feed
Scope of application Food and feed

This GM potato delivers only raw materials for the starch industry. Some residues arising from starch processing are used as animal feed. - The aim of authorisation as food is for protection in case some GM potatoes reach food processing inadvertently.

GM plant Brief description
  Summary of application
Assessment
EFSA Opinion Scientific report of EFSA's safety assessment dated November 10, 2006. In the assessment, cultivation as well as ist application as food and feed were considered.

Conclusion: The potato EH92-527-1 and derived products are unlikely to cause adverse effects on human and animal health and the environment, in the context of the proposed uses.

Brief description

EFSA: Scientific Opinion

Decision
Standing Committee Coordination: No qualified majority (10/10/2007)
Council of Ministers Coordination: No qualified majority (18/02/2008)
EU Commission

Safety of the applied marker gene was assessed once more by EFSA (7th May 2008).


Conclusion of the EFSA panel: no new scientific data are available that would lead the panel to make a change in its previous opinion.

Consolidated drafts of the EFSA panels
 

Status

Approved by resolution of the EU Commission on 02.03.2010

Conditions or restrictions Method of detection available and validated.

Community Reference Laboratory for GM Food and Feed

 

 

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