Immune evaluation of transgenic feed in the livestock and poultry industry

Food security is one of the most important issues in human societies. Modern agricultural biotechnology methods including genetic modification are a solution that is being considered through the possibility of increasing production, however new types of transgenic crops that have been modified by genetic engineering methods need to be subjected to safety assessments to meet pre-marketing requirements. The purpose of the evaluation is to investigate the impact of transgenic crops on human, animal and environmental health. Although many studies have been published on GM food risk assessment GM feed has not received much attention, although between 70 and 90 percent of all GM products and their biomass are used as animal feed. In this paper the monitoring framework of GM products for animal feed is considered and the available information on GM food evaluation is considered as a basis. However most of the techniques used to assess the safety of GM foods can be used in GM livestock feed, however many of the plant parts used to feed livestock are unusable to humans. Therefore, the concentration of newly expressed proteins in different plant tissues and compounds that are naturally present in the plant but their amount in the transgenic plant and the resulting feed feed has been considered as an indicator. Further development of specific methods for evaluating GM products for animal consumption is necessary to provide a more accurate assessment of GM feed safety