Biotech Updates

FAO Biosafety Resource Book

July 1, 2011

The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has released  "Biosafety Resource Book", based on materials from a series of training courses organized by FAO from 2002 to 2010 in the framework of its biosafety capacity development projects. The training courses were tailored to meet the needs of biosafety regulators, policy-makers and members of national biosafety committees. The courses offered background knowledge critical in the process of reviewing biosafety dossiers and biosafety-related decision-making as well as concepts and methodologies relevant to risk analysis of GMO release and biosafety management.

The book can be viewed at http://www.fao.org/docrep/014/i1905e/i1905e00.htm.