§ Mr. YeoTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will list for each of the requests submitted to him and to other Member States in connection with the placing on the market of genetically modified novel foods or novel food ingredients, pursuant to Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No. 258/97,(a) the competent food assessment body which prepared each initial assessment under that Article, (b) the dates of each such assessment and (c) details of deliberate release consents and of decisions authorising the placing on the market under Part C of Directive 90/220/EEC accompanying the submission or to which the submission relates. [69876]
§ Mr. Nick Brown[holding answer 8 February 1999]: The following competent authorities have provided initial assessments for applications under the EC Novel Foods Regulation (258/97) on the dates given:
Advisory Committee for Novel Foods and Processes (UK): tomatoes (8 June 1998).The Provisional Committee for the Safety Evaluation of Novel Foods (Netherlands):radicchio rosso (27 October 1998), chicory (27 October 1998), maize and high oleic soya (still under consideration).Copies of documents relating to these assessments have been placed in the Library of the House. Details of deliberate release consents under Directive 90/220 can be found on the following EC website addresses:
- http://biotech.jrc it;
- http://biotech.jrc.it/gmo.htm;
- http://biotech.jrc.it/gb.httm