Session 18 & 19. RISK AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY IN BIOTECHNOLOGY


a) Biosafety protocol

b) Risk analysis and management

c) Precautionary principle


Essential Readings:1) Parish, Mickey, 1999, Science
Behind the Regulation of Food Safety: Risk Assessment

and the Precautionary Principle, Washington: National Council for Science and Environment, CRS
www.cnie.org/nle/crsreports/risk/rsk-29.cfm
2) Segarra, E.Alejandro, 2000, Biosafety Protocol for
Genetically Modified Organisms: Overview, Washington DC,
The National Council for Science and the Environment, CRS, www.ncseonline.org/nle/crsreports/
agriculture/ag-93.cfm
3) Gupta , A. K. 2000. Precaution and the survival
threshold : Oscillatons between the Plimsoll lines.
Key note paper presented at the conference on Biotechnology in the Global Economy: Science and the Precautionary Principle, Harvard University, Boston, 22-23 September 2000

Essential Readings:
4) Mugo, S. and Hoisington, D. 2001. Biotechnology for
the improvement of maize for resource poor farmers:
The CIMMYT Approach. Second National Maize Workshop of Ethopia, 12-16 November, 2001.
www.cimmyt.org/worldwide/CIMMYT_Regions/CIMMYT_Africa/ procee_Ethiopia/31Biotechnology.pdf
5) Persley, G. J. Agricultural Biotechnology: Global
Challenges and Emerging Science.

www.cabi-publishing.org/Bookshop/ReadingRoom/
0851998164/0851998164Ch1.pdf
6) The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the
Convention on Biological Diversity, 17th July, 2001.

www1.oecd.org/bangkok/presjohnstone.doc