Abstract:

Transgenic food safety has an important impact to trade barrier and human health. In this paper, safety assessment methods for transgenic animals and genetic modifications is reviewed based on the connotation and extension of food safety and substantial equivalent principle. These investigations will be applied in the safety assessment of foods and food processing containing transgenic animals as well as unexpected effects in genetic modification processing. Moreover, a framework of food safety assessment for transgenic animals and food products containing transgenic animals is systematically described, which will provide a theoretical reference for food safety assessment and government supervision.

Key words: transgenic animal, genetic modification, safety assessment, allergic source, natural toxin