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To facilitate easy access to relevant published data, the ICGEB biosafety website maintains the searchable Biosafety Bibliographic Database. The database is a collection of scientific studies on biosafety and RA in biotechnology, with monthly updates distributed to members (free subscription). The database contains more than 5000 records (full reference with abstracts) of scientific articles published in international peer-reviewed journals since 1990. To assist access to the full version of an article each record contains the corresponding author’s Email address and/or a DOI (Digital Object Identifier - a unique string which links directly to the article on the journal website). All articles are selected and classified by ICGEB scientists in accordance with the main topics of concern for the environmental release of GMOs. The database is also interoperable with the CBD-BCH. |
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AGBIOS’s searchable library of biosafety-related citations, the Bibliographic Database contains records that can either be accessed through an alphabetic index of authors, or through a search based on a range of topics, including food safety, livestock feed safety, environmental safety, intellectual property, labelling and traceability, regulation, cost benefit, foreseeable science, consumer acceptance and crop plant. A full citation is given for all records, whilst for a limited number the abstract and sometimes full article (pdf format) is also provided. AGBIOS also make biosafety information available through their “Essential Biosafety” CD-ROM, which can be ordered online. |
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The Database of the Benefits and Safety of Biotechnology is hosted by CropLife International - an organisation with a Brussels-based secretariat representing the plant science industries. The purpose of the database is to enable access to credible scientific information about the demonstrated benefits associated with the use of agricultural biotechnology products, and about their safety. The database therefore maintains a biased positive approach to biotechnology, but this does not impact on the impartiality of the scientific content of the studies presented. The database contains over 60 papers (in downloadable pdf file format), and is divided into seven main categories: agronomic, safety and health, socio-economic, environmental, developing countries, co-existence and overview documents. |
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The Union of German Academies of Sciences and Humanities has collected about 240 publications on various aspects of genetically modified crop plants in a free-to-download literature base. The collection, which does not claim to be complete, contains a number of extensive reviews produced by organisations such as the Royal Society, the International Council for Science, the US National Center for Food and Agricultural Policy, the Australian Bureau of Agriculture, the Food and Agricultural Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), the Nuffield Council of Bioethics, as well as introductions to the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety by the World Conservation Union and the UN Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity. Global Reviews of Commercialized Transgenic Crops published by the International Service for the Aquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications (ISAAA) give a detailed summary of global applications of Green Biotechnology in Agriculture. |
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