Agency for Sanitary Surveillance is a federal agency that is responsible for overseeing the production and registration of drugs, food additives, medical devices, and tobacco and tobacco products (USDA 2005). The Ministry of Health is very similar to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), in the United States. The FDA is a federal agency that aims at protecting the health of consumers whether it is people or animals. Brazil is also looking at the labeling of genetically modified foods from another perspective. Brazilian producers will enjoy a significant short-term competitive advantage over many nations, including the U.S.A. (Griffin and others 2005). Brazil’s overall goal is to have a system in place for trade purposes. They want to have a unified labeling system across all nations, especially the
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The European Union’s policy is broken down into three different segments. Authorization, labeling, and traceability are the three main areas that the European Union focuses their policy regulations on. Resource? Authorization: Articles 5 and 17 of regulation 1829/2003 describes the information to be provided by an applicant seeking authorization to place a product on the market (Craddock 2004). In order for a genetically modified product to be authorized by European Union Standards the product needs to go through a rigorous procedure. The genetically modified product goes through the approval procedure between the European Food Safety Authority, the European Commission and member states before being entered into the Register of genetically modified food and feed (Craddock 2004). When the genetically modified food is reviewed and the authorization process is complete, then it is allowed to be placed in the registry and it moves onto the next segment of the policy known as
The European Union’s policy is broken down into three different segments. Authorization, labeling, and traceability are the three main areas that the European Union focuses their policy regulations on. Resource? Authorization: Articles 5 and 17 of regulation 1829/2003 describes the information to be provided by an applicant seeking authorization to place a product on the market (Craddock 2004). In order for a genetically modified product to be authorized by European Union Standards the product needs to go through a rigorous procedure. The genetically modified product goes through the approval procedure between the European Food Safety Authority, the European Commission and member states before being entered into the Register of genetically modified food and feed (Craddock 2004). When the genetically modified food is reviewed and the authorization process is complete, then it is allowed to be placed in the registry and it moves onto the next segment of the policy known as