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Upcoming Events
2019
Curso e-learning: programa de etiquetado general y nutricional de alimentos envasados
2019-03-04
San José, Costa Rica
- ILSI Mesoamerica
E-learning course: program of general and nutritional labeling of packaged foods
2019-03-04
San José, Costa Rica
- ILSI Mesoamerica-EN
Online Course: “Principles of application of general labeling regulations (RTCA 67.01.02: 10) and nutritional labeling (RTCA 67.01.60: 10) of foods previously packaged for human consumption”
Protected: Workshop ‘The Use of AOPs in Safety Evaluation of Food Additives’
2019-02-26 – 2019-02-27
Brussels, Belgium
- ILSI Europe
Adverse outcome pathways (AOPs) are designed to provide a clear-cut mechanistic representation of critical toxicological effects that propagate over different layers of biological organization from the initial interaction of a chemical with a molecular target to an adverse outcome at the individual or population level. Adverse outcome pathways are currently gaining momentum, especially in view of their many potential applications as pragmatic tools in the fields of toxicology, and risk and safety assessment. However, to date there has been little focus on food additives and how AOPs can be used as part of their risk and safety assessments.
Institutional Biosafety Officer (IBO) Workshop: Building a Network of Biosafety Practitioners in Bangladesh
2019-02-14
Dhaka, Bangladesh
- International Life Sciences Institute
This workshop served as a platform where IBOs could share the current status of biosafety regulations and protocols, best practices for implementation, and discuss challenges to the effective implementation of biosafety requirements or to the progress of biotechnology research.
Sustainability Committee Meeting
2019-02-14
서울, 대한민국
- ILSI Korea (일시코리아;한국국제생명과학회)
논의사항
1) Grain Trade 및 Climate change 관련 세미나
2) Gene editing
3) Plan 2019
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Seeing the potential to improve existing crops against various constraints, research soon continued to genetic transformation. Since then, research to develop genetically engineered (GE) crops has progressed rapidly, both at public and private research institutes, as well as universities. Considering modern biotechnology’s potential contribution to enhancing food and nutritional security, management of biotechnology has become a major issue. In light of this, the government of Bangladesh has taken several commendable steps and has developed a regulatory regime through the Biosafety Guidelines (2006), the National Biosafety Framework (2007), the Bangladesh Biosafety Rules (2012), the Guidelines for Food Safety Assessment of GE Foods (2012), and the Environmental Risk Assessment Guidelines for GE Plants (2014).
Currently, many public research institutions, individually or in collaboration with foreign research partners, have been developing GE crops in Bangladesh. One of the successful examples of collaborative research is Bt brinjal, which got approved by the government of Bangladesh on October 30, 2013 for “limited cultivation” in the field. Since 2014, this trait has been cultivated commercially for human consumption, making Bangladesh a pioneer in the arena of GE food crop commercialization. Many other crops are now ready to be assessed or already in the pipeline for performance evaluation. To support such activities, the government of Bangladesh has developed several documents, such as the Standard Operation Protocols (SOPs) for Confined Field Trial, the Data Recording Formats for CFT, and the Manual for Confined Field Trial, etc.
Institutional Biosafety Officers (IBO) need to perform their activities in accordance with these documents. It is therefore crucial to understand these guiding documents and create space to learn from and support each other through collective learning, collaboration, and networking. Against the backdrop of continued developments in both research and regulation for biosafety in Bangladesh, the South Asia Biosafety Program (SABP) arranged a day-long workshop in Dhaka on February 14, 2019 to initiate a collaboration in partnership with the Institutional Biosafety Officers (IBOs) and researchers of relevant institutions involved in GE research in Bangladesh and to establish a network of practitioners who can exchange experiences and knowledge about best practices for ensuring biosafety during the research and development of GE plants. This program was modeled after similar efforts organized by SABP and the Indian Council for Agricultural Research (ICAR).
Agenda
Agenda 8:00 am Welcome & Introductions Session Chairs Jorge Arturo Jara, PhD, The Coca-Cola Company, and Ary Bucione, Dupont 8:10 am Applications of the HPP Technology: Challenges beyond food preservation Gerardo Gonzalez-Martinez, PhD, Lund University, Bogotá, Colombia 8:40 am Nanotech in the Context of the Food Industry: Some Applications Sergio Paniagua-Barrantes, PhD, National Laboratory of Nanotechnology (LANOTEC), San Jose, Costa Rica 9:10 am Sustainability and Recycling in Packaging Marco Lucisano, PhD, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden 9:40 am Emerging Food Processing Technologies: Enhancing Food Safety and Nutrition Marcelo Cristianini, PhD, State University of Campinas, Brasil 10:10 am Concluding Panel Discussion 10:30 am Adjourn ![]()
This workshop is featured in the February 2019 edition of the South Asia Biosafety Program Newsletter.
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