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Video: Technical Meeting on the Updated Guidance Document on ERA of GM Plants

June 25, 2010

A  video released by the European Food Safety Authority documents the technical meeting conducted with the authority experts from Member States and from EFSA GMO Panel and working groups. It contains the detailed account of the discussion on the updated Guidance Document on the Environmental Risk Assessment (ERA) of GM Crops from the introduction, strategies for ERA, persistence and invasiveness, non-target organisms, receiving environments, impact of the specific cultivation, management and harvesting techniques, other issues related to ERA, and the conclusion.

Details of this news and dowloading of the video can be seen at http://www.flyonthewall.com/FlyBroadcast/efsa.europa.eu/TechnicalMeeting0610/index.php?language=english&stream=wmv&emt=1