Food safety testing Final Vote Score 34 (Mentions 16)
Consumers
- Safety assurance
- Security in food safety
- Precautionary principle upheld; ‘risk assessment’ as the back burner
Producers / Manufacturers / Marketers / Retailers
- Infallible test developed to ensure the safety of GMFs
- A safety testing regime acceptable to all groups
- Faith in food
- Testing took into account as many environmental factors as it was financially possible
Research
- Food evaluated for health and safety on basis of food value
- International co-operation in testing regimes avoids costly duplication
- Champion a call for an international consensus conference to set food safety standards which are globally adopted
- Wide-ranging sensitive and specific testing protocols
- Establish international centres of excellence in GE food safety testing
- Acceptable testing standards
- Common international standards for GM foods
- Food safety – from number of perspectives
- Better understanding on basis of allergenicity and hence better tests.
Regulations which are clear and well communicated Final Vote Score 24 (Mentions 10)
Consumers
- All organic product labelled and verified by third party
- Food regulations need to incorporate ethical, cultural and environmental aspects of production
- Substantial equivalence fails to include long-term health effects
- Substantial equivalence is not scientifically supported
Producers / Manufacturers / Marketers / Retailers
- Regulations largely replaced by self assessment of risk
- Clear, easily followed regulations limited ambiguity
Research
- Labelling restricted to major issues not comprehensive
- Acceptance of international or Trans-Tasman regulations
- Elimination of subjective restrictions
- New Zealand develops a concise regulatory framework and develop a harmonised process for community group interaction and decision making
- Set international standards on labelling to be adopted by all countries
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