The National Food Administration (NFA), a government agency under the Ministry of Agriculture, is responsible for the central supervision of compliance to the regulation of the European Community governing the control of foods or food ingredients which contain or consist of genetically modified organisms (GMO).The regulation (EC) No 258/97 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 January 1997 concerning novel foods and novel food ingredients has been in force since 15 May 1997. The regulation applies "to the placing on the market within the Community of foods and food ingredients which have not hitherto been used for human consumption to a significant degree within the Community". GMO foods fall under this category.
The regulation is complemented by certain legislation in the Food Act (1971:511). For example, the supervision of compliance to the legislation on GMO foods is carried out in the same manner as for other foodstuffs.
General information is provided in English at the NFA English website
. For detailed information on the Community regulation for approval and labelling of GMO foods, the reader is refered to the European Commission website.
