Friday, October 12, 2007

Berlin Group’s Position Papers on Genetically Modified Crops in Developing Countries

The Commission on Green Biotechnology is a constituent of the Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities (UGASH). The InterAcademy Panel (IAP), a worldwide network of 92 Academies of Sciences, with its Secretariat in Trieste/Italy, advises citizens and politicians in their home countries on current problems of global relevance. The ‘Berlin Group’ are the participants of a workshop on ‘Genetically modified crops in developing countries’, jointly conducted by UGASH and IAP in Berlin (May 27-29, 2006). The statement of the Berlin Group on GE crops in the developing countries was discussed on this site earlier.

The Berlin Group has now released two well discussed position papers, one on ‘Are there health hazards for the consumer from eat View the rest of this article


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