French term (edited): auxiliaires techniques

I don't know whether this is relevant but I can't see how it can be technologies unless it refers to GM crops

http://collections.ic.gc.ca/highway/english/biotech/concern.... concern about food safety is related to the secondary compounds produced naturally by plants. Some of these compounds can be toxic to humans or livestock or can alter the quality of food if present in big quantities. Although these metabolites are present in very low concentrations in our foods, one fear is that a genetically engineered plant may produce these metabolites in higher quantities that may be toxic to humans. Some other compounds protect the plant from fungal and bacterial infection. If they are removed genetically, people could be exposed to cancer-causing compounds produced by the fungus. One example illustrating this is decaffeinated coffee: when genes involved in the biosynthesis of the caffeine, which normally inhibits fungal synthesis of aflatoxins, is removed, fungal aflatoxins may contaminate the coffee bean.

Concern about food allergies has also been raised. Many people have food allergies that vary from a mild reaction such as a rash to a more severe reaction such as anaphylactic shock. Allergic people may not be aware that a specific genetically engineered food can be the source of an allergic reaction if the allergenic properties of food from a donor plant can be conferred on the host plant.

seems to me this is the go-to term in EU regulations