Division 1.4.4.2 Animal studies with respect to reproductive and developmental toxicity testing

When information required in Sections 1.4.1, 1.4.2 and 1.4.3 on the genetically modified food and feed suggest the potential for reproductive, developmental or chronic toxicity or in case of indications of adverse effects from the 90-day feeding study in rodents (such as functional and/or histological modifications of nervous, endocrine, reproductive or immunological tissues/organs), appropriate testing shall be performed. Protocols for reproductive, developmental and chronic toxicity testing (see Table 1 of Section 1.7) may be adapted for the purposes of testing the whole genetically modified food and feed.

Given that the 90-day feeding study in rodents is only designed to detect effects on adult reproductive organ weights and histopathology and that it does not detect other effects on reproduction or development, testing of the whole food and feed beyond a 90-day rodent feeding study shall be conducted where hazards in this respect have been identified.