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Biosafety Regulation Trends in Southern and Southeastern Asia

  • Glen Kurokawa und Darryl Macer
Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 9. September 2005
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Journal of international biotechnology law
Aus der Zeitschrift Band 2 Heft 5

Abstract

Introduction

Biosafety is becoming an ever increasingly important issue as more varieties and greater numbers of living modified organisms (LMOs) move across territorial boundaries. The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety is a multilateral environmental agreement (MEA) that, at its core, attempts to strike a balance between trade interests in biotechnology and protection of biological diversity. Article 1 of the Protocol succinctly summarizes its objectives: “to contribute to ensuring an adequate level of protection in the field of the safe transfer, handling and use of living modified organisms resulting from modern biotechnology that may have adverse effects on the conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity, taking also into account risks to human health and specifically focusing on transboundary movements”.

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Published Online: 2005-09-09
Published in Print: 2005-09-07

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