GM food regulatory terms debated
GM food regulatory terms debated
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转基因食品监管条款引发争议
DOI：
10.1038/75329
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发表时间：
2000
影响因子：
46.9
通讯作者：
A. Saegusa
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作者：
A. Saegusa
即将在转基因食品安全方面实行世界上最严格规定的国家-日本-已被选为一个工作组的主席，该工作组将起草关于生物技术食品风险分析和风险评估的指导原则。然而，由此产生的指导方针不太可能像预期的那样严厉，因为风险评估过程中的两个关键概念，“可追溯性”和“熟悉性”，让许多国家感到困惑--最明显的是日本，其官员似乎不愿意在食品安全监管的背景下使用这些术语。转基因食品-食品安全工作组是由全球食品标准机构食品法典委员会建立的生物技术食品特设政府间工作组的一部分。该工作组负责在2003年之前制定“关于生物技术食品或通过生物方法引入食品特性的标准、指南和原则”，法国在3月中旬于日本千叶举行的第一次会议上建议将“可追溯性”和“熟悉性”列入工作组议程。日本厚生劳动省（MHW;东京）将牵头
The country that is about to introduce the strictest regulations in the world concerning safety of GM foods—Japan—has been chosen to chair a working group that will draft the guiding principles on risk analysis and risk assessment of foods derived from biotechnology. However, the resulting guidelines are unlikely to be as draconian as might be expected because two key concepts of the risk assessment process up for discussion,“traceability” and “familiarity,” have many countries perplexed—most notably Japan, whose officials seem reluctant to use the terms in the context of foodsafety regulation.The GM food-safety working group is part of the ad hoc Intergovernmental Task Force on Foods Derived from Biotechnology, which was established by the global food standards body, the Codex Alimentarius Commission. The task force is charged with developing “standards, guidelines and principles on foods derived from biotechnology or traits introduced into foods by biological methods” by 2003, and it was at its first meeting in the middle of March in Chiba, Japan, that France proposed “traceability” and “familiarity” be included in the task force agenda. Japan’s Ministry of Health and Welfare (MHW; Tokyo), which will take a leading