Biosafety Resources on the Internet

Prepared by William C.G. Burns, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy

1. Treaties/Regional or National Legislative/Regulatory
• European Communication on Precautionary Principle (2000)
• Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity (2000)
• First Meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Cartagena Protocol: Daily Summary of Proceedings, IISD, http://www.iisd.ca/biodiv/iccp1/
  
• Summary, Second Meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (ICCP-2), http://www.iisd.ca/linkages/biodiv/iccp2/
  
• Summary, Third Meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (ICCP-3), http://www.iisd.ca/linkages/biodiv/iccp3/
  
2. CBD Secretariat
• Article 19 of the CBD (Handling of Biotechnology and Distribution of its Benefits): http://www.biodiv.org/chm/conv/art19.htm
• Biosafety Clearing-house,http://www.biodiv.org/biosafe/biosafety-ch/biosafety-ch.html (national laws, bilateral agreements, information on protocol operations, etc., under construction);
• Meetings of the Open-ended Ad Hoc Working Group on Biosafety (CBD), http://www.biodiv.org/biosafe/biosafe-meetings.html
• Open-Ended Ad Hoc Working Group on Biosafety, Background Document On Existing International Agreements Related To Biosafety, http://www.biodiv.org/biosafe/bswg2-3.html;
• Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical, and Technological Advice, Second Meeting, http://www.biodiv.org/sbstta2/sb208.html;
3. Other Intergovernmental Organizations
• OECD/UNIDO, Biobin,http://www.oecd.org/ehs/biobin/;
• OECD, The Harmonization of Regulatory Oversight in Biotechnology, http://www.oecd.org/ehs/service.htm;
• OECD Publications on Biotechnology, http://www.oecd.org/ehs/public.htm (most available online in Adobe Acrobat format);
• OECD, Regulatory Developments in Biotechnology in OECD Member countries,http://www.oecd.org/ehs/country.htm;
• United Nations Industrial Development Organization, Biosafety Information Network and Advisory Service, http://binas.unido.org/binas/binas.html
• United Nations Environment Program, International Register on Biosafety, http://irptc.unep.ch/biodiv/
• FAO and the Biosafety Protocol to the Convention on Biological Diversity, http://www.fao.org/waicent/faoinfo/sustdev/RTdirect/RTre0034.htm
4. National/Regional Sites
• Australia – The Australian Biotechnology Association, http://www.aba.asn.au/index.html
• Australia – GTIU, Gene Technology Information Unit, http://geneinfo.hightide.net.au/
• Australia – GMAC, Genetic Manipulation Advisory Committee, http://www.science.gov.au/gmac/gmachome.htm
• Belgium – Belgium Biosafety Server, http://biosafety.ihe.be/
• Brazil – Base de Dados Tropical, http://www.bdt.org.br/
• Brazil – Bioline Publications, http://www.bioline.org.br/
• Brazil – BIS, Biosafety Information System, http://www.fiocruz.br/cict/oquee/estrut/dect/bis/bis.html
• Canada – InfoBiotech, http://www.ibc.nrc.ca/ibc/home.html
• Canada – Laboratory Center for Disease Control, Office of Biosafety, http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hpb/lcdc/biosafty/index.html
• European Union – European Biosafety Association, http://biosafety.ihe.be/EBSA/HomeEBSA.html
• European Union – European Federation Biotechnology, http://www.boku.ac.at/iam/efb/efb_wp.htm
• European Union – Joint Research Centre, Biotechnology and the Environment, http://biotech.jrc.it/
• Germany, Biosearch, Genetic Engineering Database, http://www.bba.de/gentech/genelaw.htm
• India - http://members.tripod.com/sdnp_india/legislations/hsm3.html
• Indonesia - http://binas.unido.org/binas/country.php3?id=23
• Ireland - Interactions Between Microbial Inoculants and Resident Populations in the Rhizosphere of Agronomically Important Crops in Typical Soils (IMPACT), http://www.ucc.ie/ucc/research/biomerit/
• Japan – Tsukuba University, Regulation & Field Trials of GMOs News, http://www.biol.tsukuba.ac.jp/~macer/NBBGMOs.html
• Malaysia – Malaysia Biosafety Online, http://www.fsh.ukm.my/biosafety/
• Singapore, Third World Network, Biotechnology and Biosafety, http://www.southside.org.sg/souths/twn/bio.htm
• United Kingdom - Department of the Environment, Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment, http://www.environment.detr.gov.uk/acre/
• United Kingdom – Atlas of UK Genetically Modified Organism Releases, http://www.gn.apc.org/pmhp/dc/genetics/index.htm
• United Kingdom – Sheffield Institute of Biotechnological Law and Ethics, http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/projects/sible/sible.html;
• United States – American Biological Safety Association, http://www.absa.org/
• United States - USDA, User’s Guide for Introducing Genetically Engineered Plants and Micro-organisms, http://www.aphis.usda.gov/bbep/bp/usergd.html
• United States – National Biotechnology Information Facility, http://www.nbif.org/index.html;
• United States - USDA-APHIS, Biosafety Library, http://www.aphis.usda.gov/bbep/bp/biosafe.html
• United States - FDA Biotechnology, http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~lrd/biotechm.html
5. Other Sites
• International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Online biosafety resources, http://www.icgeb.trieste.it/biosafety/
• American Biological Safety Organization, http://www.absa.org/
• Earth Negotiations Bulletin, http://www.iisd.ca/linkages/biodiv/bswg6/
• Information Systems for Biotechnology, http://www.nbiap.vt.edu/
• Agricultural Biotechnology Center, http://www.abc.hu/
• Information Resource for the Release of Organisms to the Environment, http://www.bdt.org.br/bdt/irro/
• Michigan State University: Information and Resources on Biosafety, http://www.orcbs.msu.edu/biological/biolsaf.htm
• Norfolk Genetic Information Network, http://www.ngin.org.uk/
• Office of Environmental Health & Safety, University of Toronto, http://biosafety.ihe.be/GB/Serveurs/Menu_Frame.html;
• Union of Concerned Scientists, Biotechnology and Agriculture, http://www.ucsusa.org/agriculture/index.html.
• Council for Responsible Genetics, http://www.gene-watch.org/ 
• Alliance for Bio-Integrity, http://www.bio-integrity.org/RelReject.html 
• Top 100 Biotechnology Sites, http://www.genengnews.com/top100.asp 
6. Serial Publications
• Environmental Biosafety Resources, http://www.elsevier.fr/html/detrevue.cfm?code=EV0
• ICGEB News, http://www.icgeb.trieste.it/biosafety/bsfnews.htm
• Genetic Engineering News, http://www.genengnews.com/top100.asp
7. Articles/Reports
• EU Sets Guidelines for Precautionary Food Bans, Reuters News Service, February 2, 2000
• Richard Tapper, Food Production, Choice, and Security (1998)
• U.S. EPA Restricts Planting of Biotech Corn;
• Gupta, Aarti, Framing "Biosafety" in an International Context, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University;
• The Worldwatch Report: U.S. Derails Biosafety Protocol, http://www.enn.com/features/1999/04/040799/wwatch_2512.asp;
• Pollen from Genetically Altered Corn Threatens Monarch Butterfly, Study Finds, http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/052099sci-butterfly-danger.html
• 4(1) Conservation Ecology: Special Issue on Promises and Risks of Genetically modified crops, http://www.consecol.org/Journal/vol4/iss1/
• The Politics of GM Food: Risk, Science and Public Trust, ESRC Global Environmental Change Programme, Special Briefing No. 5, University of Sussex (1999), http://www.susx.ac.uk/Units/gec.gecko/gm-brief.htm
• WHO/Euro-ANPA, Release of Genetically Modified Organisms in the environment: is it a health hazard? (2000), http://www.who.it/Emissues/GMO/gmorpt.htm
• Precautionary Regulation: GM Crops in the European Union, 3(3) Journal of Risk Research (2000)
• Killing Fields: BT Corn Pollen May Be Snuffing Butterflies, Environmental New Network, December 1, 2000 http://www.enn.com/news/wire-stories/2000/12/12012000/ap_butterflies_426.asp
• “Not Ready for Roundup, A Critique of Monsanto’s Risk Evaluation,” Greenpeace USA, http://www.greenpeace.org/~usa/reports/biodiversity/roundup/critique.html 
• Gene-Altered Catfish Raise Environmental, Legal Issues, L.A. Times, January 2, 2001, http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/20010102/t000000275.html 
• Genetic Engineering: Seeds of Dispute, New Scientist, December 23,2000, http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns227028 
• Peter Newell & Ruth Mackenzie, The 2000 Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety: Legal and Political Dimensions, 10(2) Global Environmental Change (2000);  
• David Gibbs, Globalization, the Bioscience Industry, and Local Environmental Responses,
  10(2) Global Environmental Change (2000);  
• Governing the GM Crop Revolution: Policy Choices for Developing Countries, Robert L. Paarlberg, International Food Policy Research Institute (2000); http://www.ifpri.org/checknames.cfm/2020dp33.pdf?name=2020dp33.pdf&direc=d:\webs\ifpri\2020\dp  
• Almost a third of US farmers broke rules for planting GM maize last year, New Scientist, February 5, 2001, http://www.newscientist.com/dailynews/news.jsp?id=ns9999388  
• GM Bug 'Could End All Life', New Zealand News, February 3, 2001, http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=170916&thesection=news&thesubsection=general  
• EU passes new GM laws, heralding end of ban, Planet Ark, February 16, 2000, http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=9831
• US science panel says more data needed on bio-crop safety, Planet Ark, March 19, 2001, http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=10148
• Morven A. McLean, et al., A Conceptual Framework for Implementing Biosafety: Linking Policy, Capacity, and Regulation, International Services for National Agricultural Research, Briefing Paper No. 47 (2002), http://www.checkbiotech.org/pdf/implementingbiosafety.pdf   


• Pew Initiative on Food & Biotechnology, "The AgBiotech Buzz," http://pewagbiotech.org/buzz/index.php3?IssueID=10   
  
• Bt Corn and Monarch Butterflies, http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/br/btcorn/   
  
• Indian Minister says not against GM food imports, Planet Ark, May 21, 2002, http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/16051/story.htm   
  
• European parliament votes to introduce the toughest GM labelling and traceability rules in the world, Guardian Unlimited, July 4, 2002,  http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4454128,00.html   
  
8. Discussion Lists

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