Food Standards Agency
Scottish Parliament Written answers, 27 October 2009
Rob Gibson (Scottish National Party) | Question S3W-28021
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is able to provide details of any meetings between the head of the GM section of the Food Standards Agency and the head of abc, the umbrella group for the agricultural biotechnology industry, in 2008 and 2009.
Roseanna Cunningham (Scottish National Party)
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) informs me that the last meeting with the abc was on 18 September 2009, and was attended by the Head of the Novel Foods, Additives and Supplements Division and one other member of the division. Items discussed at the last meeting were: FSA public engagement work; progress on dossiers at the European Commission Standing Committee; progress on discussions about a technical solution to the adventitious presence of genetically modified organisms in commodity crops and next steps in relation to European Food Safety Authority guidance on genetically modified organisms.