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BioTrack Online focuses on information related to the regulatory oversight of products of modern biotechnology, including genetically engineered organisms or transgenic organisms, in the field of the environmental safety and the food and feed safety . It includes various Consensus/ Guidance Documents, Product Database, regulatory contacts of member countries, and Field Trials Database.

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ICGB Newsletter No. 19 Published

19-May-2008

A new issue of the OECD Biotechnology Update has been published. This newsletter provides up-to-date information on the diverse activities at OECD related to biotechnology.

Publication of the brochure: The OECD and the Risk/Safety Assessment of Modern Biotechnology

22-Nov-2007

This Brochure on the safety of modern biotechnology work at OECD captures activities of both the Task Force on the Safety of Novel Foods and Feeds and the Working Group on Harmonization of Regulatory Oversight in Biotechnology. Hard copies are available from us on request at icgb@oecd.org.

Publication of a new consensus document on Safety Information on Transgenic Plants Expressing Bacillus thuringiensis

03-Aug-2007

This document addresses the general information concerning the δ-endotoxin genes and their protein toxin products that confer insect protection to plants. The United States served as the lead country in the preparation of this document.

OECD Workshop on the Development of a Unique Identifier for Bacteria

06-Jul-2007

An OECD workshop was held by the Sub-working Group on Micro-organisms of the OECD Working Group on Harmonisation of Regulatory Oversight in Biotechnology (the Working Group), 20-22 June 2007 at Moscow State University.

The Consensus Document on Compositional Considerations for New Varieties of Sunflower has now been published

25-Apr-2007

This consensus document addresses compositional considerations for new varieties of sunflower by identifying the key food and feed nutrients and anti-nutrients. A general description of these components is provided. As well, there is background material on the production, processing and uses of sunflowers and considerations to be taken when assessing new sunflower varieties.

Abstracts of the OECD Workshop on the Biology of Atlantic Salmon (Salmo Salar)

06-Sep-2006

This workshop was held in Moscow, Russian Federation, 29 November - 1 December 2004. The objective of the workshop was to identify and review the kinds of  baseline information of (non-transgenic) traditional fish farming or breeding, and to determine what information might be relevant to risk/ safety assessment.

Safety Assessment of Transgenic Organisms: OECD Consensus Documents (Vols. 1 & 2)

30-Aug-2006

These OECD Biosafety Consensus Documents identify elements of scientific information used in the environmental safety and risk assessment of transgenic organisms which are common to OECD member countries.  This is intended to encourage information sharing and prevent duplication of effort among countries. This book offers ready access to those consensus documents which have been published thus far. As such, it should be of value to applicants for commercial uses of transgenic crops, regulators in national authorities as well as the wider scientific community.

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