The policy statement developed by the US Food and Drug Administration in 1992 provides guidance on relevant scientific and regulatory issues related to safety of food and feed from new plant varieties. An important component of this safety assessment is compositional analysis of the food and feed from the new plant varieties. In such an effort, the composition of the new plant variety is compared to its conventional counterpart. This comparison is made for key nutrients (e.g., proteins, fatty acids, carbohydrates); key antinutrients (e.g., phytic acid, glucosinolates), and any naturally occurring toxicants (e.g., solanine in potato) in the plant. Data from scientific literature and compositional databases are used to view the results in the context of nutritional and biological relevance. This talk will discuss aspects of compositional analysis as it relates to safety of food and feed from new plant varieties; a few examples will also be examined.

Crop composition: A key component in the safety assessment of a new plant variety

244th National Meeting (2012)

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