The Society of Toxicology is pleased to announce the next colloquium presented in conjunction with the FDA Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN). “Food from Genetically Engineered Plants: What Role for Metabolomics?” will be June 13, 2018, from 8:30 AM–1:00 PM in Wiley Auditorium on the CFSAN campus in College Park, Maryland. The series presents scientific information that is high-quality, cutting-edge, future-oriented toxicological science to provide a well-grounded foundation to inform the work of FDA employees.
Open to the public to attend in person or via webcast, these events are not a public forum for discussion of toxicology regulatory issues. The colloquium is open to the public to attend in person or via webcast.
We welcome participation from our colleagues and hope that you will announce this meeting on our behalf.
New plant varieties intended for commercial release have routinely been examined for agronomic characteristics and product quality (e.g., taste and suitability for processing) using a variety of food safety assessments prior to commercialization, including foods from genetically engineered plants. While the methods historically used for this assessment have been reliable, new methods (referred to as metabolic profiling or sometimes metabolomics) provide the ability to produce a molecular profile of new varieties that spans more substances than typically examined in the focused biochemical analysis. Although metabolic profiling may provide more data about the composition of food from a new variety, it is not certain that metabolic profiling would routinely improve predictability of food safety assessments.
This colloquium will describe the factors that impact variability in food composition, the premarket safety assessments performed for foods from genetically engineered plants, and the scientific factors important when considering whether metabolic profiling data would have utility or added value in the safety assessment of food from genetically engineered plants.
Registration: Colloquia website.
Presentations include:
- Introduction to the Safety Assessment of Foods from Genetically Engineered Plant Varieties
Jason Dietz, CFSAN US FDA, College Park, MD
- Introduction to Metabolic Profiling
Ann Knolhoff, CFSAN, US FDA, College Park, MD
- Factors Influencing the Composition/Metabolic Profile of Food from Plants
Sherry Flint-Garcia, USDA/ARS, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
- Composition Testing in the Safety Assessment of Foods from Genetically Modified Crops
Bryan Delaney, DuPont Pioneer, Johnston, IA
The event will conclude with a roundtable discussion moderated by colloquium chair, Norbert E. Kaminski. Questions from the audience on-site and from those participating in the webcast are encouraged. Allen Rudman, US FDA, is the co-chair of this colloquium.
In addition, the recording and materials from the previous sessions as well as additional information can be accessed on the Colloquia website. Questions? Contact Betty Eidemiller at SOT: bettye@toxicology.org or 703.438.3115.
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