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Novel foods, GMO
The beetle study, the broadest recent investigation on GMO effects on the environment
What are unintended effects really ? A molecular answer
EU Kommission hebt die österreichischen Gen Mais Verbote auf. AGBIO biotech crop databaseCan GMO help in food crises or not ?
EFSA gives some comments on safety of cloned food, discussing potential epigenetic effects vaguely
No consequences from epigenetics in cloned animal foods ? FDA decision
Doppel haploid Technologie für bessere Ernterträge?
Grain, diversity in GMO-Genetic Use Restriction Technologies ( GURT)
Work in the area of GM food- and GMO environmental safety
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Safety for human health and the environment needs to be seen in a holistic way, including socioeconomic effects, aspects of globalised trading versus local specificities and ethic conclusions. This is specifically described in the WHO study on modern food Biotechnology. |
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- WHO: Biotechnology and GM food safety
- The State of Food and Agriculture
- Genetically modified Crops (A FAO document on bio-security for agriculture and food production was heavily criticized by many NGOs because of the general conclusions but contains useful and differentiated information)
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- WHO study: Modern food biotechnology human health and development (This study indicates the need to look at GMO food production in a holistic, integrative way where local agro-ecolocial and socio-economic aspects might decide on benefits or failures of products and developments. Experiences from GM technology show that societies need to shape technological developments to achieve a local specific adaptation and production of public goods )
- Gute, böse grüne Gentechnik, ein Bericht aus Brand1
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- http://www.genewatch.org/WTO/WTO_Submissions.htm This site gives a good comparison about the scientifc arguments on GM safety and the different concepts in risk assessment. --> TOTER LINK
- Haslberger, ARTIKEL FURCHE (WTO-Handelsregelungen gegen Biodiversität?)
- Transgenic Crops and Sustainable Agriculture in the European Context (Different agro- ecological backgrounds and their consequences)
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GMO: TRADE US-EU (Differing U.S. and European Perspectives on GMOs: Political, Economic and Cultural Issues)
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Principles of regulations and concepts for a risk assessment from WHO/FAO/CODEX/EFSA expert consultation and guidelines |
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WTO: US win against EU on GMO defacto moratorium: Who looses ? |
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Environmental safety and the need for an Integrated Approach linking environmental and health safety assessment
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- The Net Fitness Model
- Ellstrand
- GM contamination, Haslberger, Nature Biotechnology
- GVO und Umwelt
- latest results of the contamination of Mexican Maize land races
- There will be a need for an integrated safety assessment linking health, food safety and environmetal safety. Integrated safety assessment for GVO, Haslberger
The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (CPB) under the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) regulates environmental safety of transboundary movement of GMO/ LMO. The problems observed with contamination of Mexican maize landraces with genes from various GM maize lines from the US must not happen again. However, to define what is a damage to environment, ecosystems, biodiversity or landscapes will be hard agree and harmonise.
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Labelling GM foods helps consumers decisions and can influence markets
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Safety relevant research and the EC ENTRANSFOOD, GMOBILITY and GMOBILITY project
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Work for the US-EPA, FIFRA/SAP, BT plants and uninteded effects
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Work with the ISEES group, Minnesota, the safety fist principle
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Information about safety concepts of the European food safety authority
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Aspects of GM food safety
Various articles from Alexander Haslberger:
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- Biotchnology news: AG BIOTECH INFONET
- TRANSGEN
- UK Gene Watch analysis developments critically with a professional scientific background: GeneWatch UK