Central Access Point for all relevant information about the impacts of GM plants
Total 90 results.
| Central access point type | Owner | Identifier | Description | ||||
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Risk Assessment Guidance (1st Level) International authors (2nd Level)
|  World Health Organization (WHO) | Food Safety - Biotechnology (GM foods) publications | Main page where publications concerning GM food safety publications are available | ||||
Risk Assessment Guidance (1st Level) International authors (2nd Level)
|  Codex Alimentarius | Codex Guidelines | Scroll down for Guidance and Principles from the Ad Hoc Intergovernmental Task Force on Food Derived from Biotechnology (TFFBT) | ||||
Risk Assessment Guidance (1st Level) International authors (2nd Level)
| Codex Alimentarius | Foods derived from modern biotechnology. World Health Organization Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy, 2009. Second edition | The publication represents the outcome of the work of the Codex Alimentarius Commission on principles and guidelines for food safety assessment of foods derived from modern biotechnology. They give guidance on how to assess the safety of such foods and thus protect the health of consumers. This second edition includes texts adopted by the Codex Alimentarius Commission up to 2008. | ||||
Risk Assessment Guidance (1st Level) International authors (2nd Level)
|  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) | Recombinant DNA Safety Considerations, 1986 | Safety considerations for industrial, agricultural and environmental applications of organisms derived by recombinant DNA techniques | ||||
Risk Assessment Guidance (1st Level) International authors (2nd Level)
| Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) | Safety Considerations for Biotechnology Scale-up of Crop Plants. OECD, Paris, France, 1993 | Following the publication of "Recombinant DNA Safety Considerations" and "Good Developmental Principles for Small-scale Field Research", the OECD further developed safety principles. | ||||
Risk Assessment Guidance (1st Level) International authors (2nd Level)
|  Biosafety Clearing-House (BCH) Convention on Biological Diversity | Guidance on Risk Assessment of Living Modified Organisms. Convention on Biological Diversity. Revised on 19 July 2012 | This document was developed by the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group (AHTEG) on Risk Assessment and Risk Management, with input from the Open-ended Online Expert Forum, in accordance with terms of reference set out by the Conference of the Parties serving as the meeting of the Parties to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (COP-MOP) in its decisions BS-IV/11 and BS-V/12 in response to an identified need for further guidance on risk assessment of LMOs. | ||||
Risk Assessment Guidance (1st Level) International authors (2nd Level)
|  European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) | GMO Guidance Documents | As an important part of its work, the Panel on genetically modified organisms produces guidance documents that assist companies and other organisations in the preparation and presentation of applications. | ||||
Risk Assessment Guidance (1st Level) National Authors (2nd Level)
|  Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) | Directive 94-08 (Dir 94-08) Assessment Criteria for Determining Environmental Safety of Plants With Novel Traits. CFIA, 2012 | Directive 94-08, entitled "Assessment Criteria for Determining Environmental Safety of Plant with Novel Traits", has been prepared to provide guidance regarding the submission of an application for the authorization of the unconfined release of a plant with a novel trait (PNT) in Canada, as may be required under Part V of the Seed Regulations. | ||||
Risk Assessment Guidance (1st Level) National Authors (2nd Level)
| Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) | Regulatory Guidance (Feeds) | The Canadian Food Inspection Agency verifies livestock feeds manufactured and sold in Canada or imported are safe, effective and are labelled appropriately. Effective feeds contribute to the production and maintenance of healthy livestock. | ||||
Risk Assessment Guidance (1st Level) National Authors (2nd Level)
|  Indian Department of Biotechnology (DBT) | Indian Department of Biotechnology (DBT). Biosafety Guidelines | Follow link to Guidelines in left-hand menu | ||||
Risk Assessment Guidance (1st Level) National Authors (2nd Level)
|  United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) | Pesticides: Regulating Pesticides. Plant Incorporated Protectants (PIPs) - Science Issues | Scroll to bottom of screen. Plant-incorporated protectants are pesticidal substances produced by plants and the genetic material necessary for the plant to produce the substance. Based on our reviews of the scientific studies and often peer reviews by the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Scientific Advisory Panel, EPA determined that these genetically engineered PIP products, when used in accordance with approved label directions and use restrictions, would not pose unreasonable risk to human health and the environment during their time-limited registration. | ||||
Risk Assessment Guidance (1st Level) National Authors (2nd Level)
|  United States Department of Agriculture - Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA-APHIS) | Determination of Nonregulated Status (for a Genetically Engineered Organism that will no Longer be Subject to the Regulation (7 CFR Part 340) | Part 340—Introduction of Organisms and Products Altered or Produced Through Genetic Engineering Which are Plant Pests or Which There is Reason to Believe are Plant Pests | ||||
Risk Assessment Guidance (1st Level) National Authors (2nd Level)
|  United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) | Biotechnology Guidance Documents & Regulatory Information | Guidance documents contain non-binding recommendations. Guidance for Industry & Regulatory Information | ||||
Risk Assessment Guidance (1st Level) National Authors (2nd Level)
|  Office of the Gene Technology Regulator (OGTR), Australia | Documents Relating to the Risk Assessment Process | The Gene Technology Regulator is responsible for protecting human health and safety and the environment by identifying and managing risks posed by, or as a result of, gene technology. Thus risk assessment is central to the functions of the Gene Technology Regulator. This page provides links to documents produced by the Regulator and the Office of the Gene Technology Regulator to support this function. | ||||
Risk Assessment Documents (1st Level) Searchable international collections (2nd Level)
|  International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) | The Risk Assessment Searching Mechanism (RASM) | RASM is a comprehensive collection of online Risk Assessment documents related to official government decisions concerning the commercial release of GMOs, irrespective of the individual authority's CBD signatory status. It contains many hundreds of documents, both past and present, from around the world and in various languages, relating to more than 150 different GM crops. | ||||
Risk Assessment Documents (1st Level) Searchable international collections (2nd Level)
| Biosafety Clearing-House (BCH), Convention on Biological Diversity | Search for Country's Decisions and other Communications | On this page you can search for Decisions and other Communications about: (i) Decisions on LMOs under the Advance Informed Agreement (AIA), which applies to the first intentional transboundary movement of LMOs for intentional introduction into the environment of the Party of import; (ii) Decisions on LMOs for food, for feed or for processing under Article 11 of the Cartagena Protocol regarding the requirement that countries exchange information at an early stage through the BCH; (iii) Other decisions & declarations; and (iv) Risk Assessment Reports carried out to evaluate the potential adverse effects of LMOs on biodiversity and human health. | ||||
Risk Assessment Documents (1st Level) Searchable international collections (2nd Level)
| Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) | BioTrack Product Database | The objective of this database is to allow regulatory officials in the OECD member countries to easily share basic information on products derived from the use of modern biotechnology, as well as some products with novel traits acquired by the use of conventional breeding or mutagenesis, that have been approved for commercial application in terms of food, feed or environmental safety. | ||||
Risk Assessment Documents (1st Level) Searchable international collections (2nd Level)
| European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) | EFSA Risk Assessment Publications | EFSA publications on GMO risk assessment | ||||
Risk Assessment Documents (1st Level) Searchable international collections (2nd Level)
|  International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA) | ISAAA GM Approval Database | ISAAA presents an easy to use database of Biotech/GM crop approvals for various biotechnology stakeholders. It features the Biotech/GM crop events and traits that have been approved for commercialisation and planting and/or for import for food and feed use with a short description of the crop and the trait. Entries in the database were sourced principally from Biosafety Clearing House of approving countries and from country regulatory websites. | ||||
Risk Assessment Documents (1st Level) Searchable international collections (2nd Level)
|  Center for Environmental Risk Assessment (CERA) | GM Crop Database | CERA's database of safety information (formerly hosted by AGBIOS) includes not only plants produced using recombinant DNA technologies (e.g., genetically engineered or transgenic plants), but also plants with novel traits that may have been produced using more traditional methods, such as accelerated mutagenesis or plant breeding. These latter plants are only regulated in Canada. | ||||
Risk Assessment Documents (1st Level) National Competent Authorities (2nd Level)
|  Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) | FSANZ Applications to Change the Code | A list of all applications is available in the document below. The list indicates the date of the final consideration of each application by the Board and if gazetted, the Amendment Gazette number. | ||||
Risk Assessment Documents (1st Level) National Competent Authorities (2nd Level)
| USA Department of Agriculture - Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA-APHIS) | Determinations of Nonregulated Status and Petitions | All pending petitions and completed determinations previously made available for public comment. | ||||
Risk Assessment Documents (1st Level) National Competent Authorities (2nd Level)
| Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) | Decision Documents – Determination of Environmental and Livestock Feed Safety | Decision documents for plants with novel traits | ||||
Risk Assessment Documents (1st Level) National Competent Authorities (2nd Level)
| USA Food and Drug Administration (FDA) | Biotechnology Consultations on Food from GE Plant Varieties | The inventory lists all completed Biotechnology consultations on Genetically Engineered foods evaluated under FDA’s 1992 Statement of Policy: Foods Derived from New Plant Varieties . Completed Consultations on Foods from Genetically Engineered Plants describes the information categories available in this inventory | ||||
Risk Assessment Documents (1st Level) National Competent Authorities (2nd Level)
| USA Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) | Current & Previously Registered Section 3 PIP Registrations | The registered PIPs are also listed with the rest of the genetically engineered crop plants intended for food or feed that have been reviewed by other USA agencies. | ||||
Information Supporting Risk Assessment (1st Level) Host Organism (2nd Level)
|  International Life Sciences Institute (ILSI) | Crop Composition Database | The ILSI Crop Composition Database represents a compilation of crop analyses from a number of companies engaged in agricultural life sciences. Through ILSI, the participants have standardized and pooled their crop data in order to make the data available to scientists from academia, government agencies, and industry, and to the general public. | ||||
Information Supporting Risk Assessment (1st Level) Host Organism (2nd Level)
| World Health Organization (WHO) | Global Environment Monitoring System - Food Contamination Monitoring and Assessment Programme (GEMS/Food) | Several important streams of data related to food consumption and food contamination are included in GEMS/Food: Per capita food consumption; Individual food consumption, and; Concentration of chemicals in food. | ||||
Information Supporting Risk Assessment (1st Level) Host Organism (2nd Level)
| Office of the Gene Technology Regulator (OGTR), Australia | Biology Documents | These documents are written to inform the Risk Assessment and Risk Management Plans (RARMPs) that are prepared in response to applications for dealings involving intentional release (DIRs). The biology documents provide an overview of baseline biology information relevant to risk assessment of genetically modified forms of the species that may be released into the Australian environment. | ||||
Information Supporting Risk Assessment (1st Level) Host Organism (2nd Level)
| Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) | Biology Documents - Companion Documents for Directive 94-08 | Biology documents are companion documents to Directive 94-08 (Dir94-08), Assessment Criteria for Determining Environmental Safety of Plants with Novel Traits. A biology document is intended to provide background information on the biology of a particular plant species, its centres of origin, its related species, the potential for gene introgression from the plant into relatives, as well as details on the life forms with which it interacts. The conclusions drawn in a biology document only relate to plants with no novel traits of the species in question. | ||||
Information Supporting Risk Assessment (1st Level) Host Organism (2nd Level)
| Indian Department of Biotechnology (DBT) | Series of Crop Specific Biology Documents | The Department of Biotechnology (DBT) and the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) have initiated the preparation of a “Series of Crop Specific Biology Documents” for use as reference in evaluation of genetically engineered (GE) crops. | ||||
Information Supporting Risk Assessment (1st Level) Host Organism (2nd Level)
| Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) | Consensus Documents for the Work on Harmonisation of Regulatory Oversight in Biotechnology: Biology Documents | These consensus documents comprise technical information for use during the regulatory assessment of products of biotechnology and are intended to be mutually recognised among OECD Member countries. They focus on the biology of organisms (such as plants, trees or micro-organisms) or introduced novel traits. | ||||
Information Supporting Risk Assessment (1st Level) Host Organism (2nd Level)
|  Plant Resources of Tropical Africa (PROTA) | Plants of Tropical Africa Database | Synthesises dispersed information on 7000 useful plants of Tropical Africa. It outlines the origin, taxonomy, related wild species, biology, agricultural and traditional uses, major pest species, cooking requirements, etc. related to these plants. | ||||
Information Supporting Risk Assessment (1st Level) Host Organism (2nd Level)
| Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) | Consensus Documents for the Work on the Safety of Novel Foods and Feeds | These consensus documents contain information for use during the regulatory assessment of a particular food/feed product. In the area of food and feed safety, consensus documents are being published on the nutrients, anti-nutrients or toxicants, information of the product's use as a food/feed and other relevant information. | ||||
Information Supporting Risk Assessment (1st Level) Host Organism (2nd Level)
|  USA Department of Agriculture (USDA) | USDA National Nutrient Database for Standard Reference | Nutrient databases provide standard references for the nutrient requirements of humans and domestic animals, including key nutrients, anti-nutrients, and natural toxicants of major food and feeds. Find nutrient information on over 8,000 foods using this new and improved search feature. | ||||
Information Supporting Risk Assessment (1st Level) Host Organism (2nd Level)
|  South African Medical Research Council (MRC) | Food Composition Database | Use the SA Food Composition database to find the energy and selected macronutrient (fat, protein, carbohydrate, fibre) composition of different foods. | ||||
Information Supporting Risk Assessment (1st Level) Trait (2nd Level)
|  University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA | AllergenOnline | AllergenOnline provides access to a peer reviewed allergen list and sequence searchable database intended for the identification of proteins that may present a potential risk of allergenic cross-reactivity. This website was designed to help in assessing the safety of proteins that may be introduced into foods through genetic engineering or through food processing methods. | ||||
Information Supporting Risk Assessment (1st Level) Trait (2nd Level)
|  Wageningen University, The Netherlands | Allermatch.org | Allermatch is a unique webtool where you can compare the amino acid sequence of a protein of interest with sequences of allergenic proteins. This webtool carries out automatically the procedures for predicting the potential allergenicity of proteins by bioinformatics approaches as recommended by the Codex alimentarius and the FAO/WHO Expert consultation on allergenicity of foods derived through modern biotechnology. | ||||
Information Supporting Risk Assessment (1st Level) Trait (2nd Level)
|  European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) | EMBL Bioinformatics | The world’s most comprehensive range of freely-available and up-to-date molecular databases. | ||||
Information Supporting Risk Assessment (1st Level) Trait (2nd Level)
|  Natural Resources Canada | Bt Specificity database | The ongoing discovery of new B.t. toxin genes and rapid accumulation of information on their insecticidal activities has prompted the construction of a relational database on B.t. toxin specificity to make this information accessible in a searchable format. | ||||
Information Supporting Risk Assessment (1st Level) Trait (2nd Level)
|  123Genomics | Sequence, Structure & Function Databases | The objective of 123 Genomics is to be a one stop location where internet resources related to genomic and bioinformatics can be found; grouped into several categories: e.g. Major Sequence Repositories, RNA Databases, Model Organism Databases and Resources , Specialised Databases, etc. | ||||
Information Supporting Risk Assessment (1st Level) Trait (2nd Level)
|  Bioinformatics Gent | Sequence Platform for the Phylogenetic Analysis of Plant Genes | This website allows the user to compare the degree of similarity between the genome of the host organism and the inserted transgene. Similarities could be useful for assessing the level of familiarity that a particular sequence (inserted gene) has with other regions of the genome of the host organism. | ||||
Information Supporting Risk Assessment (1st Level) Trait (2nd Level)
|  Lens, supported by Cambia | Patent search | Useful website where DNA and protein sequences that are linked to a certain patent can be found. An alternative resource to source information that may not be available elsewhere. | ||||
Information Supporting Risk Assessment (1st Level) Trait (2nd Level)
|  University of Texas Medical Branch, USA | Structural Database of Allergenic Proteins | The SDAP database is a tool to investigate the cross-reactivity between known allergens and new proteins. SDAP is an important tool in the investigation of the cross-reactivity between known allergens, in testing the FAO/WHO allergenicity rules for new proteins, and in predicting the IgE-binding potential of genetically modified food proteins. | ||||
Information Supporting Risk Assessment (1st Level) Receiving Environment (2nd Level)
|  Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) | Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) | "GBIF allows anyone, anywhere to access data about all types of life on Earth, shared across national boundaries via the Internet. By encouraging and helping institutions to publish data according to common standards, GBIF enables research not possible before, and informs better decisions to conserve and sustainably use the biological resources of the planet." | ||||
Information Supporting Risk Assessment (1st Level) Receiving Environment (2nd Level)
|  The European Environment Agency (EEA) | European Nature Information System (EUNIS) biodiversity database | EUNIS provides access to the publicly available data and includes data on Species, Habitat types and Sites taken into account in relevant international conventions or from International Red Lists. | ||||
Information Supporting Risk Assessment (1st Level) Receiving Environment (2nd Level)
|  National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), USA | Nontarget effects of Bt crops | The database includes details of the methods and results for a large number of studies that have assessed the effects upon nontarget invertebrates of crops transformed with genes derived from Bacillus thuringiensis to express one or more Cry proteins. | ||||
Information Supporting Risk Assessment (1st Level) Receiving Environment (2nd Level)
|  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) | FAO Crop Calendar | The Crop Calendar contains information on planting, sowing and harvesting periods of locally adapted crops in specific agro-ecological zones. It also provides information on the main agricultural practices. | ||||
Information Supporting Risk Assessment (1st Level) Receiving Environment (2nd Level)
|  International Survey of Herbicide-Resistant Weeds | International Survey of Herbicide Resistant Weeds | Provides reports of herbicide-resistant weeds for crops associated with genetically modified-sourced herbicide tolerance traits | ||||
Information Supporting Risk Assessment (1st Level) Receiving Environment (2nd Level)
|  Michigan State University, USA | Arthropod Pesticide Resistance Database (APRD) | This is a database of reports of resistance cases, including to Bacillus thuringiensis, from 1914 to the present, when the resistance is first discovered for a specific time and place. Pesticide resistance is a dynamic, evolutionary phenomena and a record in this database may or may not be indicative of your area. Similarly, the absence of a record in this database does not indicate absence of resistance. | ||||
Information Supporting Risk Assessment (1st Level) Receiving Environment (2nd Level)
|  International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) | Global Invasive Species Database (GISD) | The Global Invasive Species Database (GISD) focuses on invasive alien species that threaten native biodiversity and natural ecosystems and covers all taxonomic groups from micro-organisms to animals and plants in all ecosystems. This is useful should a GMO be developed which is sexually compatible with a known invasive species | ||||
Information Supporting Risk Assessment (1st Level) Receiving Environment (2nd Level)
| USA Department of Agriculture (USDA) | Plants Database | An example of a national directory, providing standardised information concerning the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the USA and its territories. | ||||
Information Supporting Risk Assessment (1st Level) Receiving Environment (2nd Level)
|  Monsanto | Weed Management | Source of information on herbicide resistance development, field management guidelines, and options which can be adopted in risk management. | ||||
Information Supporting Risk Assessment (1st Level) Receiving Environment (2nd Level)
|  University of California, USA | Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program | Information about managing pests, including guidelines for monitoring pests and using pesticides and nonpesticide alternatives for managing insect, mite, nematode, weed, and disease pests. | ||||
Published scientific literature (1st Level) Published scientific literature (2nd Level)
| International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) | Bibliosafety | A searchable collection of scientific studies on biosafety and risk assessment in biotechnology. It is updated monthly and the latest records are immediately distributed by Email to freely-subscribed users. The database contains a comprehensive collection of over 9000 records published since 1990. Full version of each record may be obtained via the DOI (Digital Object Identifier) or by contacting the corresponding author directly (Email addresses are provided when available). | ||||
Published scientific literature (1st Level) Published scientific literature (2nd Level)
|  CropLife | Database of the Safety and Benefits of Biotechnology | The database contains papers about the impact of agricultural biotechnology. It has been created primarily for use by regulators and policy makers. It will also be useful for communicators and anyone wishing to research the impact of biotechnology. | ||||
Published scientific literature (1st Level) Published scientific literature (2nd Level)
|  International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) | bEcon | bEcon is a selective collection of peer-reviewed applied economics literature that assesses the impacts of genetically engineered (GE) crops in developing countries | ||||
Published scientific literature (1st Level) Published scientific literature (2nd Level)
| Center for Environmental Risk Assessment (CERA) | Bibliography Database | This bibliography contains a comprehensive collection of citations relevant to the environmental, human food and livestock feed safety of genetically modified crops. | ||||
Published scientific literature (1st Level) Published scientific literature (2nd Level)
|  Google | Google scholar | Stand on the shoulders of giants. Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research. | ||||
Risk Assessment Guidance (1st Level) International authors (2nd Level)
|  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) | Test No. 408: Repeated Dose 90-Day Oral Toxicity Study in Rodents | This method provides information on health hazard likely to arise from exposure to test substance via oral administration. The determination of sub-chronic oral toxicity using repeated doses may be carried out after initial information on toxicity has been obtained from acute or repeated dose 28-day toxicity tests. | ||||
Risk Assessment Guidance (1st Level) International authors (2nd Level)
| Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) | Test No. 451: Carcinogenicity Studies | The objective of a long-term carcinogenicity study is to observe test animals for a major portion of their life span for the development of neoplastic lesions during or after exposure to various doses of a test substance by an appropriate route of administration. | ||||
Risk Assessment Guidance (1st Level) International authors (2nd Level)
| Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) | Test No. 452: Chronic Toxicity Studies | The objective of these chronic toxicity studies is to characterise the profile of a substance in a mammalian species (primarily rodents) following prolonged and repeated exposure. | ||||
Risk Assessment Guidance (1st Level) International authors (2nd Level)
| Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) | Test No. 453: Combined Chronic Toxicity/Carcinogenicity Studies | The objective of a combined chronic toxicity/carcinogenicity study is to identify carcinogenic and the majority of chronic effects, and to determine dose-response relationships following prolonged and repeated exposure. | ||||
Risk Assessment Guidance (1st Level) National Authors (2nd Level)
|  Health Canada | Guidelines for the safety assessment of novel foods | These Guidelines are intended to assist the petitioner in preparing a novel food notification and to ensure that the information is sufficient to for a safety assessment. Novel food safety assessments are conducted by the Food Directorate, Health Products and Food Branch of Health Canada. The Food Directorate is the federal health authority responsible for establishing policies, setting standards and providing advice and information on the safety and nutritional value of food. | ||||
Risk Assessment Guidance (1st Level) National Authors (2nd Level)
|  Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) | Application handbook | The Application Handbook provides the essential information required to make an application to vary the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code (the Code). It provides background information on the Code and the role of Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ), as well as practical information on the procedure for making an application to FSANZ to vary the Code. | ||||
Risk Assessment Guidance (1st Level) National Authors (2nd Level)
|  Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) | Guidelines for the safety assessment of foods derived from genetically engineered plants | In view of the many GE food crops under field trial in India, as well as increased global trade in foods derived from GE crops approved for cultivation in other countries, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), in its capacity as the scientific and technical advisory body to MoHFW, formulated Guidelines for the Safety Assessment of Foods Derived from Genetically Engineered Plants in 2008 to establish the safety assessment procedures for foods derived from GE plants and were subject to a public consultation process, subsequently revised, and then reviewed and adopted by RCGM and GEAC in 2008. | ||||
Risk Assessment Guidance (1st Level) National Authors (2nd Level)
|  Food Safety Commission of Japan | Standards for the safety assessment of Genetically Modified Foods (Seed Plants) | In July 2003, the Food Safety Commission was founded to conduct safety assessments of foods including genetically modified foods and food additives at the request of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. The standards stated herein include the principles, basic concepts and standards required for the safety assessment of genetically modified foods (seed plants) to be conducted by the Food Safety Commission, and these have been composed based on the former and Codex guidelines. | ||||
Information Supporting Risk Assessment (1st Level) Trait (2nd Level)
|  University of Sussex, UK | Bacillus thuringiensis Toxin Nomenclature | The current nomenclature, based solely on amino acid identity, allows closely related toxins to be ranked together and removes the necessity for researchers to bioassay each new toxin against a growing series of organisms. | ||||
Information Supporting Risk Assessment (1st Level) Receiving Environment (2nd Level)
|  European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) | Fauna database on non-target arthropod species | This database contains a detailed overview of the arthropod fauna in arable crops across Europe. In a systematic literature search, relevant publications were identified concerning arthropods in European fields planted with maize, oilseed rape, potato, sugar/fodder beet, soya bean, cotton, and rice, and in field margins. Species attributes and abundance data have been stored in this SQL-queryable database, and provides ecological information for 3030 species and 14,762 abundance records from 31 European countries. | ||||
Information Supporting Risk Assessment (1st Level) Receiving Environment (2nd Level)
| European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) | The EFSA comprehensive european food consumption database | The Comprehensive Food Consumption Database is a source of information on food consumption across the European Union (EU). It contains detailed data for a number of EU countries. The database plays a key role in the evaluation of the risks related to possible hazards in food in the EU and allows estimates of consumers’ exposure to such hazards, a fundamental step in EFSA’s risk assessment work. | ||||
Information Supporting Risk Assessment (1st Level) Receiving Environment (2nd Level)
| Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Statistics Division (FAOSTAT) | FAOSTAT collates and disseminates food and agricultural statistics globally. The division develops methodologies and standards for data collection, and holds regular meetings and workshops to support member countries develop statistical systems. FAOSTAT produce publications, working papers and statistical yearbooks that cover food security, prices, production and trade and agri-environmental statistics. | ||||
Information Supporting Risk Assessment (1st Level) Receiving Environment (2nd Level)
|  World Bank | World Bank DataBank | DataBank is an analysis and visualisation tool that contains collections of time series data on a variety of topics. Free and open access to data about development in countries around the globe (a wide variety of subjects e.g. poverty, health, etc.). | ||||
Information Supporting Risk Assessment (1st Level) Receiving Environment (2nd Level)
| Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) | Agricultural Policy | Agricultural policy describes the laws, instruments and measures related to the domestic farm sector and trade in agricultural products. Agricultural policies encompass a wide range of issues, including providing sufficient food at reasonable prices for consumers, securing food safety and improving environmental quality. Despite this diversity, policy measures applied in a country within a certain period of time can be brought together and expressed in a set of numbers, called agriculture support indicators, which are comparable across time and between countries. | ||||
Information Supporting Risk Assessment (1st Level) Receiving Environment (2nd Level)
|  European Statistics (EUROSTAT) | Agricultural Statistics | Agricultural statistics were initially designed to monitor the main objectives of the Common Agricultural Policy, e.g. the production and supply of agricultural products and income in the agricultural sector. Today, agricultural statistics cover topics as diverse as farm structure, utilisation of farming land, labour input, production, supply/use, prices and the composition of agricultural income. Comprehensive information is available at both a national level and a regional level. | ||||
Information Supporting Risk Assessment (1st Level) Receiving Environment (2nd Level)
|  United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) | UNCTADSTAT | A general country profile which provides an overview of key economic statistics by country. The statistical themes covered are: International trade, Economic trends, Foreign direct investment, External financial resources, Population and labour force, Information economy, Maritime transport. The main website displays general information on socio-economic considerations per each country, but it is possible to get more in detail looking for activities relating to agriculture. | ||||
Information Supporting Risk Assessment (1st Level) Receiving Environment (2nd Level)
|  International Labour Organization Central Statistics Database (ILOSTAT) | ILOSTAT Database | The ILO’s central statistics database (ILOSTAT) is the primary source for cross-country statistics on the labour market. The database contains over 100 indicators covering more than 230 countries and economies. The datasets contain annual data mainly collected through the ILO yearly questionnaire, which covers a wide range of topics including decent work indicators. The concepts have been streamlined for purposes of greater comparability. The main website displays general information on socio-economic considerations per each country, but it is possible to get more in detail looking for activities relating to agriculture. | ||||
Information Supporting Risk Assessment (1st Level) Receiving Environment (2nd Level)
|  USA Department of Agriculture (USDA) | Economics and Agricultural Statistics | Providing access to various economic and agricultural databases: USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service offering a census of agriculture; USDA's Foreign Agricultural Service data & analysis; USDA's data and statistics; USDA's Economic Research Service; USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service; USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service, etc. | ||||
Risk Assessment Documents (1st Level) Searchable international collections (2nd Level)
|  Scielo | Scielo | The Scientific Electronic Library Online - SciELO is an electronic library covering a selected collection of Brazilian scientific journals. The library is an integral part of a project being developed by FAPESP - Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo, in partnership with BIREME - the Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information. Since 2002, the Project is also supported by CNPq - Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico. | ||||
Risk Assessment Documents (1st Level) Searchable international collections (2nd Level)
|  GMO Compass | Genetically Modified Food and Feed: Authorisation in the European Union. | This database contains information about every genetically modified plant that has been approved or is awaiting approval in the EU. Information on the food and feed produced from the respective GM plant is also available. | ||||
Information Supporting Risk Assessment (1st Level) Trait (2nd Level)
|  Information Platform for Animal Health and GM Feed | GM Feed Consumption Database | The GM Feed Consumption Database contains data from the comparision of health and productivity on livestock animals fed with GM and non-GM feed for specified period of time. Data have been collected through controlled feeding studies carried out by various organisations and research teams. | ||||
Risk Assessment Documents (1st Level) Searchable international collections (2nd Level)
|  FAO | FAO GM Foods Platform | The FAO GM Foods Platform is a simple online platform to share information on safety assessment of foods derived from recombinant-DNA plants authorised in accordance with the Codex “Guideline for the conduct of food safety assessment of foods derived from recombinant-DNA plants (CAC/GL 45-2003, annex III adopted in 2008) ". This Platform also facilitates the effective utilisation of food safety assessment in situations of Low Level Presence (LLP) of r-DNA plant materials in food. | ||||
Risk Assessment Guidance (1st Level) International authors (2nd Level)
|  World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) | Handbook on Import Risk Analysis for Animals and Animal Products. Volume I. Introduction and Qualitative Risk Analysis | Volume 1 Handbook introduces the concepts of import risk analysis and discusses qualitative risk analysis. The provision of tested practical examples makes it a useful training tool. | ||||
Risk Assessment Guidance (1st Level) National Authors (2nd Level)
|  Committee on the Biological Confinement of Genetically Engineered Organisms, USA National Research Council | Biological Confinement of Genetically Engineered Organisms | Biological Confinement of Genetically Engineered Organisms examines biological methods that may be used with genetically engineered plants, animals, microbes, and fungi. Bioconfinement methods have been applied successfully to a few non-engineered organisms, but many promising techniques remain in the conceptual and experimental stages of development. This book reviews and evaluates these methods, discusses when and why to consider their use, and assesses how effectively they offer a significant reduction of the risks engineered organisms can present to the environment. | ||||
Risk Assessment Guidance (1st Level) International authors (2nd Level)
|  Convention of Biological Diversity | Training Manual on Risk Assessment of Living Modified Organisms in the context of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety | This training material was developed by the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) in cooperation with other United Nations bodies and international organisations with the purpose to provide basic training for environmental risk assessment, taking into account the provisions of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety and in particular Annex III of the Protocol. To this end, the training modules attempt to incorporate experience from a variety of national regulatory frameworks and international organisations in a comprehensive manner. | ||||
Information Supporting Risk Assessment (1st Level) Receiving Environment (2nd Level)
|  International Trade Centre | Trade Map - International Trade Statistics | Trade Map provides - in the form of tables, graphs and maps - indicators on export performance, international demand, alternative markets and competitive markets, as well as a directory of importing and exporting companies. Trade Map covers 220 countries and territories and 5300 products of the Harmonized System. The monthly, quarterly and yearly trade flows are available from the most aggregated level to the tariff line level. | ||||
Information Supporting Risk Assessment (1st Level) Host Organism (2nd Level)
|  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) | FAO Glossary of Biotechnology for Food and Agriculture | This glossary is a useful tool for acquiring general information and consolidating terminology in biotechnology. The glossary is available in multi-language versions and contains a searchable tool providing a comprehensive list of more than 3000 terms and acronyms used regularly in biotechnology in food and agriculture. | ||||
Information Supporting Risk Assessment (1st Level) Host Organism (2nd Level)
|  Biotechterms.org | Glossary of Biotechnology Terms | The online version of Technomic Publishing’s “Glossary of Biotechnology Terms” is meant as a general introduction to assist individuals who seek to gain an understanding of the terminology as it is currently used. | ||||
Information Supporting Risk Assessment (1st Level) Host Organism (2nd Level)
|  European Commission | GMO Methods | The GMOMETHODS database provides reliable and harmonized information on European Union reference methods for detection of GMO. These methods are DNA-based polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assays that have been validated according to the principles and requirements of international standards and can assure therefore consistent and reproducible results in the analysis. | ||||
Information Supporting Risk Assessment (1st Level) Trait (2nd Level)
|  European GMO Initiative for a Unified Database System - EUGINIUS | European GMO Initiative for a Unified Database System - EUGINIUS | EUGINIUS provides accurate information of major and relevant issues regarding the presence, detection and identification of GMOs with a focus on the situation in the European Union as well as world-wide coverage. | ||||
Information Supporting Risk Assessment (1st Level) Host Organism (2nd Level)
|  Biotechnology Industry Organization | Commercial Status of Certain Agricultural Biotechnology Products Database | This data is made to the public for informational purposes only. Products are classified into one of the following three categories; (i) Commercialised - available for sale in at least one country, (ii) Last Seed Sales - this is the last year that seed for this product was sold for commercial use, and (iii) Never Commercialised – the product has never been made available for sale. The retrieval mechanism allows records to be selected according to company, crop, OECD Unique Identifier, and event name. | ||||
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