Karl-Heinz Engel

TL;DR: In this paper, the Scientific Panel on Food Additives, Flavourings, Processing Aids and Materials in Contact with Food (the Panel) is asked to advise the Commission on the implications for human health of chemically defined flavouring substances used in or on foodstuffs in the Member States.

TL;DR: The potential value of evolving "profiling" or "omics" technologies as non-targeted, unbiased approaches, to detect unintended effects in GM crops and products are focused on.

TL;DR: It is shown that physiological challenges increased interindividual variation even in phenotypically similar volunteers, revealing metabotypes not observable in baseline metabolite profiles; volunteer‐specific metabolite concentrations were consistently reflected in various biofluids; and readouts from a systematic model of β‐oxidation showed significant and stronger associations with physiological parameters than absolute metabolite concentration.

TL;DR: The environment was shown to play an important effect in the protein, gene expression and metabolite levels of the maize samples tested where 5 proteins, 65 genes and 15 metabolites were found to be differentially expressed.

TL;DR: It is concluded that DNA from GMOs is equivalent to DNA from existing food organisms that has always been consumed with human diets and any risks associated with the consumption of DNA will remain, irrespective of its origin.