Food And Agriculture

Map I contains three ‘local’ maps which follow the food supply chain. This is a topical way of thinking about food production because of national and European-level proposals for traceability ‘from farm to fork’.

Map I1, Plant Propagation, is mainly concerned with the implications of agricultural seed regulations for GMOs.

Map I2, Animal Feed, outlines the regulation of feeds containing enzymes or micro-organisms, and signals proposals for product-specific regulation of GM animal feed.

Map I3, Novel Foods, is based on the legislation currently in force in December 2002 and concentrates on developments since the EU Novel Foods Regulation of 1997. This applies to food products obtained by novel processes, containing novel or modified molecules, or otherwise differing substantially from established food products, as well as to GM food. There are different requirements if GMO-derived products do not actually contain GM material. The labelling of novel foods is regulated, and more recent controls apply to additives. The EU is developing a new regulatory framework for GM food and feed ingredients (see Annex I3.5(b)), and the system for regulating other novel foods (not from GM sources) is also coming under review.