India's DBT Posts New Guidelines for GM Crops
January 25, 2008| |
India's Department of Biotechnology (DBT) has formulated a set of new policy instruments in response to the increase in the number of field trials being conducted for several crops with new genes/events by public and private sector institutions. The DBT initiated an exercise to develop guidelines for conducting field trials of regulated and confined field trials of genetically engineered plants in India. The existing DBT's revised guidelines for research in transgenic plants and guidelines for toxicity and allergenicity evaluation of transgenic seeds, plants and plant parts was introduced way back in August 1998.
The new draft policy instruments include: 1). Draft Guidelines for the conduct of confined field trials of regulated, genetically engineered plants in India , 2). Draft Standard Operating Protocols (SOPs) and Recording Formats for confined field trials and, 3). Draft Protocols for assessment of toxicity and allergenicity in transgenic crops. The draft policy instruments are available for public comments at the Indian GMO Research Information System (IGMORIS) website at http://www.igmoris.nic.in/.
Send comments and suggestions to Dr KK Tripathi, Advisor, Department of Biotechnology at: kkt@dbt.nic.in. For more information about biotech in India contact Bhagirath Choudhary of the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA) South Asia Center at b.choudhary@isaaa.org.
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