Safety assessment of food products from r-DNA animals

Comparative Immunology, Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 163-189

  Lema, Martin A ^a,b   Burachik, Moises ^a,c  

^a Livestock   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE QUILMES   (Argentina)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Codex Alimentarius; Food safety assessment; Non heritable applications; Recombinant DNA animals; Transgenic animals

Indexed keywords

BETA CASEIN; KAPPA CASEIN; LACTOSE; MYOSTATIN; PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT DNA; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; SOMATOMEDIN C;

ALLERGENICITY; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOSAFETY; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; DNA MODIFICATION; FISH; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD COMPOSITION; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD INDUSTRY; FOOD PROCESSING; FOOD QUALITY; FOOD SAFETY; FOOD STORAGE; GOVERNMENT; MOLECULAR CLONING; ORGANIZATION; PROTEIN CONTENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; RNA INTERFERENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY; DNA, RECOMBINANT; FOOD, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; LEGISLATION, FOOD; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED;

ANIMALIA; PISCES;

EID: 58849156114     PISSN: 01479571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cimid.2007.11.007     Document Type: Article

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