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Safety Assessment of Transgenic Organisms in the Environment, Volume 5

OECD Consensus Documents

This series represents a compilation of the biosafety consensus documents developed by the OECD Working Group on Harmonisation of Regulatory Oversight in Biotechnology over the periods 2011-12 (Volume 5) and 2013-15 (Volume 6). Volumes 5 and 6 describe the biology, centres of origin, genetics, hybridisation, production and use, and ecology elements of several crops (sugarcane, cassava, sorghum, common bean, cucurbits) and trees (eucalyptus species). They also provide considerations on pathogenicity factors in assessing the potential adverse health effects of bacteria, and the low level presence of transgenic plants in seed and grain commodities. The consensus documents contain information for use during the regulatory assessment of products of modern biotechnology, i.e. transgenic organisms (plants, animals, micro-organisms), when intended for release in the environment. As such, it should be of value to applicants for use of genetically-engineered organisms in agriculture mainly, to regulators and risk assessors in national authorities for their biosafety assessments, as well as the wider scientific community. More information on this OECD programme is found at BioTrack online (www.oecd.org/biotrack).  

Published on April 05, 2016

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword and Acknowledgements
Executive summary
Introduction to the biosafety consensus documents
Micro-organisms1 chapter available
Bacteria
Biology of crops3 chapters available
Squashes, pumkins, zucchinis and gourds (Cucurbita species)
Brassica crops (Brassica species)
List of OECD consensus documents on environmental safety assessment, 1996-2015
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