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The OECD Blue Book on Recombinant DNA Safety Considerations: it's influence on ISBR and EFSA activities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 July 2007

Joachim Schiemann
Joachim Schiemann*
Affiliation:
Federal Biological Research Centre for Agriculture and Forestry, Institute for Plant Virology, Microbiology and Biosafety, Braunschweig, Germany
*
J.Schiemann@BBA.DE

Abstract

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Biosafety regulatory frameworks are intended to serve as mechanisms for ensuring the safe use of biotechnology products without imposing unacceptable risk to human health or the environment, or unintended constraints to technology transfer. The OECD Blue Book on "Recombinant DNA Safety Considerations", setting out principles and concepts for handling genetically modified organisms safely outside of contained laboratory conditions, was a milestone in the history of biotechnology. The "Recombinant DNA Safety Considerations" definitively became the major resource for the formulation of national regulatory frameworks and international regulations, including the Cartagena Protocol. 


Type
Research Article
Information
Environmental Biosafety Research , Volume 5 , Issue 4: Special issue , October 2006 , pp. 233 - 235
Copyright
© ISBR, EDP Sciences, 2007

References

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EFSA (2004) Guidance document of the Scientific Panel on Genetically Modified Organisms for the Risk Assessment of Genetically Modified Plants and Derived Food and Feed. The EFSA Journal 99: 1–94. http://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/science/gmo/gmo_guidance/660.html