Risks & Risk Assessment

Genetic Engineering in Plants and the “New Breeding Techniques (NBTs)”

Inherent risks and the need to regulate

(10 pages)

Dr Frances Kelsey: thalidomide and the precautionary principle

The Ecologist, August 2015

GE Wheat trial by Rothamsted Research

Submission on Rothamsted Research application for consent to release genetically modified wheat in the UK

(7 pages)

Release of GM mosquito Aedes aegypti OX513A (NRE(S)609-2/1/3)

Scientific opinion to the Department of Biosafety, Ministery of Natural Resources and Environment of Malaysia

Genetically Engineered Trees & Risk Assessment

An overview of risk assessment and risk management issues

(30 pages)

Published by the Federation of German Scientists. Presented at CBD COP9 negotiations on GE trees

Transformation-induced Mutations in Transgenic Plants

Analysis and Biosafety Implications

(29 pages)

In: Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering Reviews, Vol 23, December 2006, pp. 209-237

Briefing Paper on Transgenic Trees

Implications for Human Health, Biodiversity and Biosafety

(2 pages)

Prepared for CBD COP8 (available in English, Spanish and Portugese)

The Mutational Consequences of Plant Transformation

(7 pages)

In: Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology (2006), Volume 2006, Article ID 25376

V-GURTs (Terminator Technology)

Design, Reality and Inherent Risks

(17 pages)

Submission to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, Working Group on Article 8(j)

Genome Scrambling – Myth or Reality?

Transformation-Induced Mutations in Transgenic Crop Plants

(36 pages)

GM-Gene Flow (b)

Horizontal gene transfer of viral inserts from GM plants to viruses

(8 pages)

The CaMV 35S Promoter

Government and Corporate Scientific Incompetence:
Failure to assess the safety of GM crops

(2 pages)