Harmonisation of Regulatory Oversight in Biotechnology Safety Assessment of Transgenic Organisms in the Environment, Volume 5..

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Harmonisation of Regulatory Oversight in Biotechnology Safety Assessment of Transgenic Organisms in the Environment, Volume 5 OE ...

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FOREWORD – 3 Foreword From their first commercialisation in the mid-1990s, genetically engineered crops (also known as “transgen ...

4 – FOREWORD before their possible use and market release. Among the ongoing developments of modern biotechnology, crop varietie ...

FOREWORD – 5 As of December 2015, a total of 53 consensus and guidance documents on biosafety have been published by the Working ...

6 – ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Acknowledgements This book is the result of the common effort of the participants in the OECD’s Working Gro ...

Table of contents ...

8 – TABLE OF CONTENTS Annex 2.A1. List of taxonomic names of various Cucurbita species ......................................... ...

Table 3.11. Estimated dispersal distances of spring B. napus seed released from transport - TABLE OF CONTENTS – Executive ...

10 – TABLE OF CONTENTS Figure 3.28. Oilseed rape (B. napus) production regions in Europe showing millions of hectares of winter ...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY – 11 Executive summary This document constitutes the fifth volume of the OECD Series on Harmonisation of Regul ...

12 – EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In this volume, the introduction to the biosafety consensus documents presents the OECD Working Group, th ...

INTRODUCTION TO THE BIOSAFETY CONSENSUS DOCUMENTS – 13 Introduction to the biosafety consensus documents........................ ...

14 – INTRODUCTION TO THE BIOSAFETY CONSENSUS DOCUMENTS The need for harmonisation activities at the OECD The establishment of th ...

INTRODUCTION TO THE BIOSAFETY CONSENSUS DOCUMENTS – 15 difficulties in working towards harmonisation, while a high level of simi ...

16 – INTRODUCTION TO THE BIOSAFETY CONSENSUS DOCUMENTS host organism or trait; but they address – on a consensual basis – the ke ...

INTRODUCTION TO THE BIOSAFETY CONSENSUS DOCUMENTS – 17 It is important to note that the review of consensus documents is not lim ...

18 – INTRODUCTION TO THE BIOSAFETY CONSENSUS DOCUMENTS diseases such as dengue fever and chikungunia that have been dramatically ...