New developments in biotechnology applied to animals: An assessment of the adequacy and sufficiency of current EFSA guidance for animal risk assessment.

ABSTRACT: EFSA was requested by the European Commission to provide a scientific opinion on new developments in biotechnology, including new genomic techniques, as applied to animals for food, feed and other agricultural uses. A horizon-scanning exercise identified a variety of animals obtained with new genomic techniques, with the potential to reach the EU market in the short, medium and long term. No novel hazards have been identified that are linked to either the modification process or the newly introduced trait, when SDN-1, SDN-2 and comparable techniques (e.g. base editing or prime editing) were compared to established genomic techniques (EGTs) or conventional breeding. Hazards posed by SDN-3 are of the same nature as those posed by EGTs and the targeted insertion may reduce the potential hazar

SUBMITTER: EFSA Panel on Genetically Modified Organisms (GMO) 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12319424 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature