Division 1.6.1 Objectives of the nutritional assessment

The applicant shall provide a nutritional evaluation to demonstrate that:

1. (a)

   the introduction of the genetically modified food and feed into the market is not nutritionally disadvantageous to humans and animals, respectively. This evaluation shall include the relevance for the nutrition of newly expressed proteins, other new constituents, and changes in the levels of food and feed constituents, as well as potential alterations in the total diet of the consumer or the animal;

2. (b)

   unintended effects of the genetic modification that were identified or that may be assumed to have occurred based on the preceding molecular, compositional or phenotypic analyses, in accordance with Sections 1.2 and 1.3, have not adversely affected the nutritional value of the genetically modified food and feed.

For stacked transformation events combined by conventional crossing, an assessment of the potential changes in nutritional value that might arise from synergistic or antagonistic effects of the gene products including compositional changes shall be provided by the applicant. This may be particularly relevant where the combined expression of the newly introduced genes has unexpected effects on biochemical pathways.