The FDA List of Completed Consultations on Bioengineered Foods

The inventory of biotechnology consultations lists all completed consultations about bioengineered foods. Each record in the inventory

• Identifies each consultation by a file number (biotechnology notification file number; BNF No.);
• Identifies the food crop that was modified;
• Describes the intended effect of the modification;
• Provides the developer's distinctive designation for the subject of the consultation;
• Provides the date of the agency's letter responding to the submission and a hyperlink to the text of that letter.

For each record in the inventory, the file number also serves as a hyperlink to additional information about the consultation, including

• The developer's name and address;
• The date when the developer submitted its scientific and regulatory assessment of the food;
• The application(s) of the food (e.g., in human food, animal feed, or both);
• Whether the bioengineered food that contains an introduced pesticidal substance, which is subject to regulation by EPA;
• The product of the transferred gene (usually a protein) that confers the intended trait to the plant, or the gene (or gene fragment) that was transferred to the bioengineered food;
• The original source of genetic material that was transferred to the bioengineered food; and
• The agency's final memorandum regarding the submission and a hyperlink to the text of that memorandum. The memorandum contains detailed information about the new bioengineered plant.