International Resources

Appendix P: Physical and Biological Containment for Recombinant or Synthetic Nucleic Acid Molecule Research Involving Plants, US National Institutes of Health

Appendix P specifies physical and biological containment conditions and practices suitable to the greenhouse conduct of experiments involving recombinant or synthetic nucleic acid molecule-containing plants, plant-associated microorganisms, and small animals. …

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A Practical Guide to Containment: Plant Biosafety in Research Greenhouses

This Guide was originally published in 2001 as A Practical Guide to Containment: Greenhouse Research with Transgenic Plants and Microbes and primarily addressed containment of plants and plant-associated organisms containing…

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Biosafety Resource Book

This Biosafety Resource Book by FAO stems from the experience gained in biosafety capacity building projects and is based on the material developed in the training programmes consisting of the…

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Integrated Confinement System for Genetically Engineered Plants: A Comprehensive Approach to Biosafety for Confined Field Trials

The Integrated Confinement System for Genetically Engineered Plants provides model procedures and documents for the regulation and conduct of Confined Field Trials (CFTs) with genetically engineered (GE) plants. These models…

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Guideline for the Conduct of Food Safety Assessment of Foods Derived from Recombinant-DNA Animals, 2008

This Guideline supports the Principles for the Risk Analysis of Foods Derived from Modern Biotechnology. It addresses safety and nutritional aspects of foods consisting of, or derived from, animals that…

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Guideline for the Conduct of Food Safety Assessment of Foods Produced Using Recombinant-DNA Micro-Organisms, 2003

This Guideline supports the Principles for the Risk Analysis of Foods Derived from Modern Biotechnology and addresses safety and nutritional aspects of foods produced through the actions of recombinant-DNA microorganisms.…

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Guideline for the Conduct of Food Safety Assessment of Foods Derived from Recombinant-DNA Plants, 2003

This Guideline supports the Principles for the Risk Analysis of Foods Derived from Modern Biotechnology. It addresses safety and nutritional aspects of foods consisting of, or derived from, plants that…

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Principles for the Risk Analysis of Foods Derived from Modern Biotechnology, 2003

The purpose of these Principles is to provide a framework for undertaking risk analysis on the safety and nutritional aspects of foods derived from modern biotechnology. This document does not…

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An Explanatory Guide to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

The main goal of the guide is to facilitate the understanding of the legal obligations of the Parties under the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety. It is an explanatory guide, which…

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Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety

The Parties to this Protocol, being Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, hereinafter referred to as “the Convention”, Recalling Article 19, paragraphs 3 and 4, and Articles 8 (g)…

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