Posts Tagged ‘Safety assessment’
Consensus Document on Molecular Characterisation Of Plants Derived from Modern Biotechnology
Molecular characterisation is one component of the science-based multi-disciplinary approach used in food, feed and environmental risk/safety assessment of plants derived from modern biotechnology. The molecular characterisation of these plants is used to gain an understanding of the genetic material introduced and expressed in them. The purpose of this document is to explain the scientific…
Read MoreGuidelines for the Environmental Risk Assessment (ERA) of Genetically Engineered Plants
This document has been developed for planning and conducting an environmental risk assessment in support of an open release of a GE plant in Bangladesh. It provides a practical elaboration to the risk assessment framework included in the Biosafety Guidelines of Bangladesh by detailing the types of information that will be informative for environmental risk…
Read MoreGuidelines for the Safety Assessment of Foods Derived from Genetically Engineered Plants
The Bangladesh Agricultural Research Council (BARC), in collaboration with the Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI), the Department of Environment (DoE), the Institute of Public Health (IPH), the Directorate General of Food, and other relevant stakeholders, has taken the initiative to develop these guidelines to establish the safety assessment procedures for foods derived from GE…
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