Quiz 4 FDA Food - Sp25

Question 1

In section ____________ of FFDCA covers regulations on additives, which are substances that are not a normal constituent of foods, while in section ________, foods that bear poisonous substances are referred to as adulterated.

Answer 1

Section 409 of FFDCA covers…. :While in section 402

Question 2

FDA’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) is primarily responsible for the safety of biotech foods and enforces EPA’s pesticide tolerances. What is the definition of pesticide tolerance with regards to FDA’s regulatory responsibilities?

Answer 2

the amount of pesticide allowed to remain in food

Question 3

What is not true about foods that are classified as GRAS?

Answer 3

Food that is GRAS requires FDA review and approval before marketing

Question 4

What does not apply to GMO or non-GMO plants?

Answer 4

Many of today’s food crops generated by mutagenic chemicals or radiation contain one to a few well-characterized mutations

Question 5

Choose the best answer. What is true of a food additive?

Answer 5

Additives include substances whose normal levels in food may have been increased by human intervention

Question 6

What is not true regarding FDA’s 1992 policy the regulation of genetically engineered food crops?

Answer 6

Genetically engineered foods are to be regulated differently from crops which are products of traditional breeding techniques

Question 7

One concern about the use of antibiotic resistance genes as markers for selection of successful transgenic events in plants, is that the resistance genes may be horizontally transferred which could mean that:

Answer 7

The resistance genes may be acquired by pathogenic gut microbes

Question 8

In 2001, FDA required developers to submit a scientific and regulatory assessment of their new GE crop about ___________ before the bioengineered food is marketed.

Answer 8

4 months

Question 9

What is FDA’s standard definition of bioengineered food?

Answer 9

Food that has been modified through rDNA techniques in a way that could not be obtained through conventional breeding or found in nature

Question 10

It is possible that a plant produced by genetic engineering using recombinant DNA technology will not contain foreign genetic material. True or False?

Answer 10

TRUE

Question 11

Which of these genetically-engineered food products might be required to be labelled as bioengineered?

Answer 11

Papaya engineered to be resistant to papaya ringspot virus

Question 12

What product is not under the regulatory jurisdiction of FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medicine?

Answer 12

Antibody drug for cancers in dogs

Question 13

What is not true about the first product from a genetically engineered (pharmed) animal to be approved by the FDA?

Answer 13

A functional human gene was knocked into a pig’s genome

Question 14

The New Animal Drug Application (NADA) for AquAdvantage was finally approved by the FDA in 2015 with several containment safeguards implemented. What is not one of the containment safeguards in relation to AquAdvantage?

Answer 14

Geographical containment by selling Aquadvantage outside of the US only

Question 15

A New Animal Drug Application approval for transgenic animals, which are to be used for food or to produce drugs, requires that the gene introduced to the animal:

Answer 15

is safe to consumers if bioengineered animal is to be used as food