• information sources and databases
• links to reports on GMO ERA and biotechnology
• links to guidance for regulatory procedures
• links to guidance for research practices

Websites offering resources, databases, guidelines:

• Biosafety Clearing House of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety
• FAO Biosafety resources (guidelines, manuals, reports, toolkits)
• AgBios GM crops database (private foundation financed by Canadian government, industry etc.- detailed summaries of biosafety information on GM crops and constructs, links to regulatory decisions, case studies etc.)
• Joint Research Centre of European Union (database of analytical methods for detection, training on detection)
• Molecular Food Authentication
• Belgian Biosafety Server (run by Belgian government - regulatory documents in the EU, guidance materials, useful links)
• ICGEB Biosafety web pages
• OECD Biotrack database on biotech products (pilot database, limited information)
• Swiss Biosafety Clearing House

Databases on completed risk assessments and ongoing approvals:

• USDA APHIS GM approvals database
  this lists all GM crops either approved for commercial use ("nonregulated") or under evaluation (pending), including links to complete application documents from the biotech companies, and APHIS decision documents. Newest applications at the bottom of the page!
• Database of US field trials (run by Information Systems for Biotechnology ISB) - all permits issued for field trials since 1987
• EU evaluations of GM crops (Joint Research Centre)
  This page lists deliberate releases and placing on the EU market of
  GMOs. It publishes information and receives comments from the public regarding notifications about deliberate field trials and placing on the market of genetically modified organisms, as defined in Directive 2001/18/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 March 2001.
• Database of field trials in the EU (Joint Research Centre)
  lists all applications for field trials since 1991by country or organism
• Australian government GM applications (Australian Gene Technology Regulator)
  lists all GM crop intentional release applications under evaluation, with links to the application documents and opportunities to comment on the application.
• Australian government GMO risk assessments (Australian Gene Technology Regulator)
  lists all GM crops that have been approved either for field trials ("limited and controlled release") or for commercial release, with links to the risk assessment documents.
• ICGEB Risk Assessment Searching Mechanism
  pilot searching mechanism that links to risk assessment documents from various countries.
  In Spanish:
• SAGPYA (Argentinian Agriculture Ministry) GMO applications
  Scroll to the bottom of the page!! to find a table of applications with links to the risk assessment documents
• CFIA Field trials in Canada
• New Zealand - click on search applications or search new organisms

Email newsletters and sources of news on biotechnology and biosafety:

• Information Systems for Biotechnology (site funded by USDA -
  ISB News Reports on developments in agricultural and environmental biotechnology)
• Biosafety Information Centre of Third World Network (run by NGO - critical information bulletins on biosafety, Cartagena Protocol and biotechnology developments, meetings, publications)
• FAO BioDeC database (biotechnology research in developing countries)
• Crop Biotech net (ISAAA - sponsored by biotech industry and others)
• FAO Biotechnology Working Group
• GENET (comprehensive collection of email news postings on GM issues)
• Ag BioTech Net (CABI and Agricultural Biotechnology Support Project - needs a subscription for full access)

In French:

• Observatoire de la Génétique (Centre de bioéthique de l'IRCM,
  Montréal) un réseau international d'observateurs qui, par le biais de leurs contributions écrites, décrivent, commentent ou analysent les enjeux éthiques, sociaux, légaux, médicaux et scientifiques engendrés par les développements de la génétique et de la génomique.

Databases and sources of literature on GMOs and biosafety research:

• ICGEB biosafety bibliographic database (regularly updated from CABI abstracts)
• AgBios citation library
• CABI abstracts database (requires subscription)
• FAO annotated bibliography on the economic and socio-economic impact of agricultural biotechnology in developing countries (May 2005, 780KB if you download)
• Iowa State University annotated bibliography of literature on exposure to and effects of Bt (only selected papers: brief commentaries, not clear what is the basis of choice)
• Information Systems for Biotechnology: annotated bibliographies for environmental/ecological impacts of transgenic organisms (last updated: September 2003)

GMO detection services and training:

• Central Science Laboratory: Molecular Food Authentication, including detection of GMOs
• Central Science Laboratory: Food Analysis Training
• Joint Research Centre of European Union training courses on GMO detection

Free access online journals:

• Electronic Journal on Biotechnology (funded by UNESCO and connected to REDBIO network in Argentina/Latin America. Mainly biotech articles but a few on biosafety issues).

Other useful databases:

• NCEAS Nontarget effects of Bt crops database (National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California)
• International survey of herbicide resistant weeds (Weed Science Society of America and others)
• Database of arthropods resistant to pesticides (Michigan State University)
• Bacillus thuringiensis toxin nomenclature (N. Crickmore et al. Sussex University, UK, last updated August 2005)
• The Bacillus thuringiensis toxin specificity database (K. Van Frankenhuyzen and C. Nystrom, last updated March 2005)

Some links to links:

links to websites or databases of GM field trials in various countries

list of links on biosafety by UK internet gateway (regularly updated)

links page of the International Society of Biosafety Research (ISBR)

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