Genetically Modfied Organisms (GMO) need to be assessed through systematic networks

Thursday, October 18, 2012 - 03:30 in Health & Medicine

In Europe there are many concerns about adverse environmental effects of genetically modified (GM) crops, and the opinions on the outcomes of environmental risk assessments (ERA) differ largely. GM crop safety testing and studies on the standardisation of impact assessments of releases are insufficiently developed. Therefore a framework was published in the open access journal BioRisk, which aims at improving the European regulatory/legal system.

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