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South Asia Biosafety Program
SABP is dedicated to assisting the Governments of Bangladesh and India in further strengthening institutional governance of agricultural biotechnology.
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AGBIOS is dedicated to providing public policy, regulatory, and risk assessment expertise for products of biotechnology.
AGBIOS has worked with government departments and agencies on issues of policy and regulation pertaining to genetically modified and other novel foods, crops, and forest tree species.  The Company also provides experience and expertise to commercial enterprises seeking regulatory approval of biotechnology products, and to other public and private sector groups seeking clarification of issues associated with the development and utilization of biotechnology processes and products.
Our website offers access to a database of safety information on all genetically modified plant products that have received regulatory approval, information on the implementation of biosafety systems, including case studies for food and environmental safety assessments, and a searchable library of biosafety-related citations in key topic areas.
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Reducing uncertainty in regulatory decision-making for transgenic crops: More ecological research or clearer environmental risk assessment? Alan Raybould GM Crops 1:1, 1-7; January/February 2010 Download[PDF Size: 1466519 bytes]
Latest Crop Biotech News
‘Farming must embrace GM technology to fight 21st-century food crisis’
Nina Fedoroff, who advises the US Secretary of State on science and technology, heads a group of senior researchers who call today for a “radical rethink” of farm practice to meet 21st-century demand for food.
Scientists slam key study behind Bt brinjal ban
A vital study cited by Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh to justify his decision to disallow the commercial cultivation of Bt brinjal in India is flawed, claim top European scientists.
'At Jairam’S Hearings, No One Heard Us’
Several senior scientists told the The Indian Express today that they were never heard at these public hearings. “I was out-shouted by the NGO lobbies the moment I began speaking. I could not express my views. Public hearings of the sort that were arranged are not the right place where scientific issues can be discussed in an objective manner."
India's Green Counter-Revolution (Opinion)
Tuesday's decision doesn't only affect Monsanto. It will discourage other foreign companies who want to sell biotech innovations into India, blunt the aspiration of native Indian entrepreneurs, and leave India's poor worse off as they await New Delhi's elusive "consensus."
India's Genetically Modified Mistake (Opinion)
Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh could have given his citizens access to safer and cheaper brinjal—but he didn't. Why?
EU experts fail to decide on GMO maize approval
BRUSSELS - A European Union scientific committee failed to reach agreement on Tuesday over whether to approve three genetically modified (GMO) maize crops for import, an EU official said.
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