Results from ten years of post-market environmental monitoring of genetically modified MON 810 maize in the European Union.

ABSTRACT: In European regulations for the deliberate release into the environment of genetically modified organisms (GMO), the objective of General Surveillance in Post-Market Environmental Monitoring is defined as the identification of the occurrence of adverse effects of the GMO or its use which were not anticipated in the environmental risk assessment (ERA). Accompanying the commercial cultivation in the EU of maize event MON 810, General Surveillance was implemented by Monsanto, the authorization holder, on a voluntary basis. We carried out a statistical analysis on the pooled results of ten years of farmer questionnaires, which were a part of this General Surveillance, amounting to 2,627 farmer fields in eight European countries in the period 2006-2015. This analysis did not reveal any unexpect

SUBMITTER: Bertho L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7182268 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature