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Policy and practises regarding the regulation of novel foods have been dominated in the last 10 years by the newfound ability to modify the genetic material of plants through recombinant DNA technology. This has found many interesting and important applications for it offers food and feed products with novel traits. The first generation of genetically modified (GM) crop plants were generally developed for such traits as increased resistance against pests or virus diseases and enhanced tolerance to herbicides. More recently, it has become possible to modify metabolic pathways of plants to improve such traits as nutritional characteristics, or safety, for example by lowering the content of allergens in crops.
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Burke, D. (2003). Novel Foods: The Changing Regulatory Response. In: Belton, P.S., Belton, T. (eds) Food, Science and Society. Gesunde Ernährung / Healthy Nutrition. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-07285-1_6
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