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#6494Biosafety Clearing-House Training Workshop
26 October 2024, Cali, Colombia
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#6470Online discussion of the Liaison Group on the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
7 - 21 February 2024, Online
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#6398Global risk assessment workshop
30 - 31 October 2023, Montreal, Canada
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#6352Twelfth meeting of the Informal Advisory Committee on the Biosafety Clearing-House
15 - 16 May 2023, Montreal, Canada
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#6271Biosafety Clearing-House Training Workshop
5 - 6 December 2022, Montreal, Canada
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#1322212021-12-17
Biosafety Law: China’s new, stricter controls
In April 2021 the Biosafety Law came into effect. To highlight its growing importance, the recent 33rd Politburo collective study session of the CPC Central Committee was on the theme of strengthening China’s biosafety.
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#1319522021-11-26
Return From Extinction
The prospect of "reviving" an extinct species – or a, genetic hybrid version of it – is moving closer to reality thanks to the sophistication of genome engineering technologies coupled with our ability to extract and sequence archaic DNA samples.
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#1318962021-11-24
NBA notes low biosafety standards in govt labs
The National Biosafety Authority (NBA) has destroyed various food products containing Genetically Modified Organisms seized from Shoprite Stores worth K16,897.
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#1318922021-11-24
Why Seed Companies Fear México
Last month México’s Supreme Court provided hope for biodiversity, especially in the Global South, while flaming fear for seed companies. In a historic step, it ruled for corn advocates and against genetically modified (GMO) corn. The decision was a momentous act in country where maíz (corn) carr ...
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#1318952021-11-24
Biosafety Regulation To Boost Nigerians Green Economy
Strong regulatory policy in the Biosafety sector would boost Nigeria’s green economy, Director General, National Biosafety Management Agency, Dr Rufus Ebegba has said.
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#1294872021-07-09
What is GMO?
Manufacturers of GMO products, including foods, genetically modify organisms to improve the product or gain a commercial advantage. For example, GMO plants may be easier to grow in large quantities, or they may produce more fruit. GMO meat from genetically modified animals may taste better or di ...
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#1282862021-04-27
The world is too dry and hungry to snub genetically modified crops, tech CEO says
A world without enough food is just around the corner and can only be averted if humans forget their qualms about eating genetically modified crops.
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#1275172021-03-04
Cuba Bets on GM Corn to Increase Production
An interesting thing that sets the Juan Darian Credit and Services Cooperative (CCS), in the Jarahueca region of the Sancti Spiritus province in the country’s interior, apart from its counterparts across the nation: it is the only one with a biological safety licence to plant GM soy and corn.
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#1270022021-02-11
Could Ethiopia make or break the future of GM crops in Africa?
I have followed with interest the recent controversy around plantings of transgenic crops in Ethiopia. Until 2015, the country took a vocal stand against genetically modified (GM) crops, underlined by its strict proclamation on biosafety in 2009… Six years later, the country loosened its restric ...
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#1260662020-12-08
GMO: Lawyers speak on gaps in Nigeria’s biosafety law
Nigeria officially signed the Biosafety Bill into law in 2015, making it eligible to join the league of nations already using genetic engineering (GE) to boost food production.
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#1258912020-11-27
Cameroon: Senate - Migration, Biosafety Bills Tabled
This was during a plenary sitting chaired by the Senior Vice President of the Senate, Aboubakary Abdoulaye. Three bills have been tabled for scrutiny at the Senate. There were tabled on November 24, 2020 during a plenary sitting chaired by the Senior Vice President of the Senate, Aboubakary Abdo ...
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#1226732019-10-15
Unlocking the biochemical treasure chest within microbes
A new genetic engineering tool will help open the floodgates of microbial metabolite applications.
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#1222622019-09-18
Nigeria: Biotechnology, Panacea for Food Security - Govt
The federal government has identified biotechnology as one of the technological tools the government plans to apply to ensure it adequately caters for the food demands of the growing population.
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#1222332019-09-16
‘Committed to ensuring biosafety’
Agriculture Minister Dr Abdur Razzaque yesterday said Bangladesh is committed to ensure biosafety as an adaptor of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity. “We have already adapted and enacted the ‘Biosafety Rules of Bangladesh, 2012’ and ‘Biosafety Guidelin ...
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#1200372019-02-20
How to fight malaria
Combating the life-threatening disease by modifying mosquitoes could save lives
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#1198902019-02-11
Egypt poised to again lead Africa in agricultural biotechnology innovation
When will Egypt again lead Africa in agricultural biotech innovation? That question kept running through my mind when I visited the North African country late last year to participate in the United Nation’s annual biodiversity conference.
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#1194642019-01-17
People with the most extreme views on ‘Frankenfoods’ are the least well informed
People who have strong views on ‘Frankenfoods’ know the least about the science behind them.Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) are foods produced from plants or animals whose DNA has been altered through genetic engineering.
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#1193892019-01-15
DBT, ICAR signs MoU for R&D activities in agricultural biotechnology research
The Department of Biotechnology (DBT) has undertaken several activities and programs to promote Biotechnology Research & Development in the areas of Agriculture Biotechnology.
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#1193422019-01-11
Establishing the National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced the National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard. The National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Law, passed by Congress in July of 2016, directed USDA to establish this national mandatory standard for disclosing foods that are or may be bioeng ...
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#5823Central and Eastern European Training Course on Risk Assessment of Living Modified Organisms
24 - 28 September 2018, Minsk, Belarus