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Biosafety
Information Network and Advisory Service (BINAS)
The Biosafety Information Network and Advisory Service (BINAS) is
a service of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization
(UNIDO). BINAS monitors global developments in regulatory issues in
biotechnology.
Biosafety
Journal
BioSafety Journal is maintained as a free online journal by Bioline
International and Science and Technology Letters (their site also provides
excellent linkages to a range of other electronic environmental journals).
Biotechnology
& Development Monitor
CBD
link : Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety - Biosafety Home Page 
Council
for Biotechnology Information
The Council for Biotechnology Information has been founded
by leading biotechnology companies to create a public dialogue and share
information about biotechnology that is based on objective scientific
research, independent expert opinion and peer-reviewed published reports.
It has French language mirror site.
FAO:
The Electronic Forum on Biotechnology in Food and Agriculture
Journal
of International Wildlife Law & Policy: Biosafety
Resources on the Net
OECD
Biotechnology & Food Safety
This URL leads you into the OECD's work on biotechnology and biosafety
and contains a lot of downloadable reports including recent working
group reviews of (i) food safety and (ii) regulatory harmonisation.
Greenpeace
GM Foods
The Greenpeace booklet 'GM on trial', prepared from the scientific
evidence that was used in support of 28 Greenpeace volunteers who were
put on trial in Norwich (England) earlier this year for the removal
of a GM maize crop, is now available on the web. It is a PDF file.
ICGEB
Biosafety Web Pages The International Centre for Genetic Engineering
and Biotechnology promotes the safe use of biotechnology worldwide with
special regard to the needs of the developing world. Includes a library
of selected documents on biosafety, links to biosafety-related webpages,
and bibliographic database on biosafety studies published since 1990.
IFPRI
and Biotechnology: The International Food Policy Research
Institute
Monsanto
- Biotechnology & the Food Industry
This site has links to Monsanto websites in a number of different
countries and languages (French, Chinese, etc) and has the aim of promoting
a dialogue between biotechnology and the food industry.
The
Nuffield Council on Bioethics
The Nuffield Council on Bioethics is an independent body established
by the Trustees of the Nuffield Foundation in 1991. The Council is funded
jointly by the Nuffield Foundation, The Wellcome Trust and the Medical
Research Council.
Union
of Concerned Scientists - Genetic Engineering Topic
United
States Department of Agriculture
If you want to look in detail at the way that a "pro-biotechnology"
country has structured its own biosafety system, then this is a good
place to start. The site allows you to look at the legal, policy, research
and trade aspects of the USA government's agricultural biotechnology
and also has a link to the Economic
Research Service site.
Working
Group on Environmental Justice
The Working Group on Environmental Justice has support from the Harvard
University Provost's Fund for Interfaculty Collaboration, the University
Committee on Environment and the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American
Research.
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