Inclusive development and prioritization of review questions in a highly controversial field of regulatory science

Table 1 Development and selection of review questions

GMO impact area	Development and selection of review questions
	Preliminary review questions	Changes made to review questions			Candidate review questions	Selected review questions
	Preliminary review questions	Revised	Dropped	Added	Candidate review questions	Selected review questions
Health impacts	11	4	6	4	9	4^a
Environmental impacts	23	4	3	0	20	6^b
Socio-economic impacts	33	15	2^d	9	40	4^c
Total	67	23	11	13	69	14

Numbers indicate how many review questions entered into the process, were modified and selected. The review questions selected for conducting systematic reviews and maps are detailed in Table 2
^aAll four review questions were revisited based on stakeholder comments
^bThe prioritization exercise initially produced 11 questions, of which 3 were kept unchanged, 2 were further modified, 6 were dropped and another one added
^c27 review questions on micro level socio-economic impacts were combined into one broad systematic map; 4 review questions on macro level socio-economic impacts were selected based on 14 candidate questions—two of the four questions were combined into one review question
^d2 questions were dropped as separate questions but included in the scope of other review questions

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