**7. Safety assessment process to register or import GM products**

Delivering GM products to market requires time and investment to ensure safety. Use of genetically modified crops as human food and animal feed several studies are required for registration or import into the country. Many countries have very strict rules and regulations for release of GM crops and also a trade barrier in some situations. Hence introduction of GM crops and their products as human food and animal feed some reliable methods such as molecular analysis, safety assessment, toxicological test, nutritional quality analysis, genotoxicity analysis, allergenicity etc. are essential for import or release of new genetically modified crops.

A detailed molecular characterization is a common study in the safety assessment of GM crops.
