BreakThrough The health angle of GMO crops for human consumption was succinctly dealt with in my previous articles. Testing of food safety of GMO a concept called “substantial equivalence”, which states that “the safety of new food, particularly one that has been genetically modified, may be assessed by comparing it with a similar traditional food that has proven safe in normal use over time”. The concept was first introduced in an Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) publication in 1993. The concept stresses that an assessment of novel food, in particular...