Are Limits of Concern a useful concept to improve the environmental risk assessment of GM plants?

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• 作者：Marion Dolezel ; Marianne Miklau ; Andreas Heissenberger…
• 关键词：GMO ; Genetically modified plants ; Environmental risk assessment ; Environmental harm ; Damage thresholds ; Limits of Concern
• 刊名：Environmental Sciences Europe
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：December 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：29
• 期：1
• 全文大小：2012KB
• 刊物主题：Environment, general; Pollution, general; Ecotoxicology;
• 出版者：Springer Berlin Heidelberg
• ISSN：2190-4715
• 卷排序：29

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BackgroundThe European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has introduced a concept for the environmental risk assessment of genetically modified (GM) plants which foresees the definition of ecological threshold values defining acceptable adverse effects of the GM plant on the environment (Limits of Concern, LoC).